Background Architects and engineers must design buildings to withstand a variety of forces, some stronger than others, from many sources: gravity, people inside, weight of building materials ...

As earthquakes take their toll, engineers look at enhancing building designs Date: December 18, 2010 Source: Virginia Tech Summary: A next generation of design criteria for buildings located in ...

An adage of seismic design states that earthquakes don’t kill people — buildings do.And in one of the world’s most quake-prone countries, architects, engineers and urban planners have long ...

Architect achieves stunning breakthrough with earthquake-resistant house design — and it could soon replace 50,000 homes first appeared on The Cool Down. advertisement. The Cool Down.

Since 1987, MCEER, formerly the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) and the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research ( NCEER), has produced over 600 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Crews are finishing up digging a 125-foot hole to install a test foundation that they’ll use to test the earthquake-resistant Burnside Bridge design. Project officials ...

When a 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on Wednesday, people inside the island’s tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101, were protected by a large yellow pendulum at the building’s center that ...

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Scenes of buildings reduced to rubble were beamed around the world this week following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that ...

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Scenes of buildings reduced to rubble were beamed around the world this week following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Ishikawa prefecture on Japan’s ...