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 ...

Seismic isolation and damping systems have been widely adopted since the 1980s as effective and economical measures for protecting civil structures, ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering, seismic isolation, deformable rolling bearings, low-cost isolation for lightweight structures, triaxial shake table testing, and isolator behavior modeling. Abstract: ...

Although the earthquake that shook New York City and the surrounding region on Friday didn’t cause systemic damage, it left many residents wondering how the city’s buildings would fare under stronger ...

In Dir City, Pakistan, the majority of structures are non-engineered and old, and were built by local masons. Based on the Building Code of Pakistan, the city falls within Seismic Zone III, and these ...

This blog post was co-authored by NBBJ Principal Andrzej Czech and Associate Sandra Lozano, and KPFF Principal Mark Hershberg and Associate Maikol Del Carpio. Earthquakes cost the nation an estimated ...

Tripura’s First High-Rise Seismic-Resistant Administrative Building nears completion ‘The whole world will pay’: Trump declares US will impose tariffs on all countries Jeera water vs chia seeds water ...

The Chinese government remains silent about why it has permitted construction to resume on a 117-story skyscraper in Tianjin city nearly a decade after it was ...