The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat announced in Dubai that current codes of practice around the world are inadequate for the seismic design of tall buildings and has called for a more ...

A just-adopted version of the Uniform Building Code (UBC) will have a significant impact on the design and construction of buildings in the Seattle area and throughout the West Coast. The 1997 UBC ...

Code-based earthquake engineering is on the verge of getting simpler, thanks to the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program’s recommendation to replace the traditional seismic hazard maps with ...

Learn how seismic-resilient bridge design uses advanced materials, curved geometry modeling, shape memory alloys, and performance-based methods to reduce earthquake damage and downtime.

San Francisco is seeking input from technical experts on its landmark tall-buildings seismic safety study. Suggestions from seismic design professionals, especially about code changes, will help ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday was estimated to be about 500 ...

A severe earthquake is a terrifying disaster; only a few seconds of ground shaking can annihilate a vulnerable community. Most deaths occurring during an earthquake are the direct result of the ...

The earthquake in Haiti prompted a lot of architectural analysis of buildings there, and in megacities around the world. Without proper planning–and stricter building codes–most of the biggest cities ...

This study investigated the seismic response of Rigid Wall-Flexible Roof Diaphragm (RWFD) buildings under extreme ground shaking was studied. RWFD buildings are a type of low-rise industrial ...

Resilience is the ability to bounce back after a disturbance or interruption, or the capacity to withstand, recover from, or adapt to stress, misfortune, or change. By now, design teams are at least ...