Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. As the demand for built environment grows, the inevitable ...

If you live or work in Beverly Hills and your building was constructed before 1978, it may be in need of a seismic retrofit. According to recently obtained data on 229 soft-story buildings in the city ...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday proposed the most ambitious seismic safety regulations in California history that would require owners to retrofit thousands of building most at risk of ...

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 ...

Ronald Henderson Research Fellow Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research & Brotherhood of St Laurence, The University of Melbourne Ralph Horne has received funding for research on ...

View Partners in Progress: From Homes to High Rises via Firehouse’s proprietary digital platform Clarity. Retrofitting a new automatic sprinkler system into an existing building increases the fire ...

We are all familiar with the concept of cost benefit analyses, and some of us rely on them when making significant investments. At least, we think we do. In fact, psychologists tell us that most ...

Just over a week after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake devastated Cebu, an even more powerful quake struck the Davao Region yesterday morning. The 7.4-magnitude tectonic earthquake, with its epicenter ...