If you’ve ever seen footage of enormous buildings swaying uncontrollably during an earthquake or actually felt the Earth opening under your feet, you would know just how terrifying an earthquake can ...

This is the moment an engineer demonstrated models of 'earthquake-resistant buildings' in China. Footage shows three plastic mini three-story buildings placed on black cylindrical isolators mounted on ...

Unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings are everywhere. Residences, stores, restaurants, schools, fire departments and other critical infrastructure are commonly housed in URM buildings. These buildings ...

Tara Hutchinson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, is the lead researcher on a series of tests on a 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego ...

Construction workers and vehicles move around the Capitol. Gov. Kotek’s order to earthquake-proof state buildings comes as the state Capitol nears the end of a years-long, $598 million seismic ...

Editor’s Note: Design for Impact is a series spotlighting architectural solutions for communities displaced by the climate crisis, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies. Scenes of ...