After the Northridge earthquake in 1994, significant steps were taken to upgrade building codes. Many of those put in place a couple of years after the quake. Nearly two decades later, the City of Los ...

(MCT) — City officials in Napa had long worried that the grand building on the corner of Second and Brown streets — with its brick walls and giant red-tiled cupolas — could be devastated by a major ...

You’ve got a great idea for a business. You know the area you want to serve and what you want your brand to represent. Now you’re ready to open your first location. Or perhaps you’ve seen success at ...

The Portland City Council is taking another stab at trying to figure out what to do with the roughly 1,600 old brick and stone buildings that are likely to come crumbling down during the next major ...

SEATTLE - After the Nisqually earthquake, Seattle set out to identifyand retrofit the city's most vulnerable buildings. Many important ones, like fire stations and community centers, were upgraded.

If properly designed and constructed, brick masonry can be highly durable and tends to demand little in the way of routine repairs. However, it is still important to conduct regular inspection of the ...

(TNS) - Local emergency managers agree that a recent New Yorker article was more than a little over the top in implying that everything west of Interstate 5 will be “toast” after the next Cascadia ...

Brick and stone masonry have served as reliable and valuable elements of commercial building projects for centuries, gracing urban and rural landscapes since time immemorial. Building Teams have ...

During an earthquake it’s not the shaking that injures, maims, and kills; it’s what the shaking does to cause buildings, bridges, and other structures to fail. Large pieces, such as parapet walls, can ...