NAPA — Nearly 30 years after California adopted a law designed to spur the retrofitting of buildings at risk in an earthquake, thousands of Bay Area structures still are not updated, a laggard pace ...

(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 ...

New and innovative retrofitting techniques are now available for restoring existing historic masonry structures. Many of the experts are already saying that it may take a decade or two. I would say, ...

NAPA — For 25 years, Brian Silver has insisted that his downtown historic building, built before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, did not need retrofitting. While surrounding business owners spent ...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KABC) -- Some of the worst buildings to be in or near during a major earthquake are older structures made of unreinforced masonry. The Inland Empire has hundreds of those older ...

Many of the most shocking photos to emerge from the recent Nepal earthquake were not of people, but of buildings: iconic structures reduced to heaps of rubble, homes that collapsed, storefronts ...

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 ...

CINTEC Canada of Nepean, Ontario, designer and manufacturer of the CINTEC Reinforcing Anchor System, offers a blast protection system for existing masonry structures. The system, known as Blastec, a ...

The Whitworth Apartments at 1619 E. John St. is one of those older brick buildings on Capitol Hill that imbue the neighborhood with historical charm and a sense of place. It's also one of more than ...

As Pasadena’s beloved Public Library marks its 140 years of service this year, the Central Library’s resilience is once again being tested by nature. A recent 4.4-magnitude earthquake that struck ...