A seismic retrofit project is intended to help stabilize the home and minimize damage caused by earthquakes. According to Angi and HomeAdvisor, the cost of retrofitting a house for earthquake ...

The New Year is here, and many of us are still trying to figure out what our New Year’s resolution should be. Maybe you want to walk more, eat healthier, or read more books. Bearing in mind the recent ...

Hello, Unshaken readers. At the newsletter course’s one-year anniversary, we wanted to take a moment to update you on the latest developments in quake insurance and seismic retrofitting grants, as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Keywords: Steel plate shear walls (SPSW). Retrofit. Light-guage steel plates. Energy dissipation. Abstract: This report presents experimental investigations into the seismic adequacy of steel plate ...

Keywords: Polymer matrix composite (PMC) materials. Retrofitting. Infill panel systems. Existing structures. Composite materials. Material efficiency. Construction ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An Eyewitness News investigation has found hundreds of residential buildings in Los Angeles are not meeting the city's latest earthquake retrofit requirements. Back in 2015, the ...

Los Angeles residents strongly back the city’s landmark earthquake retrofit law, a new poll has found, despite decades of conventional wisdom that such a rule would be politically unpopular because of ...