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 ...

Structural engineers at UC San Diego were waiting to see how a tall building, made from recycled steel, would react in a 6.9 magnitude earthquake. The earthquake shake table was ready to go as the ...

"Three, two, one!” The tallest steel-framed building ever tested on an earthquake simulator started moving slowly, swaying and twisting. The 10-story, 100-foot structure was experiencing simulations ...

"So we're looking for an innovative building system that we can use in the United States, that can work in earthquake country as well as everywhere else, can be constructed quickly, can be sustainable ...

Drivers on Interstate 15 may have noticed smoke near Pomerado Road this morning. KPBS education reporter Katie Anastas says it was part of a UC San Diego study on how fire spreads through ...

With seismically active regions in the west and east of Canada, engineers are always looking for ways to improve the safety of dwellings in these areas and beyond. Nader Aly, PhD candidate in the ...

Vice-Senior General Soe Win emphasised that construction and repair of earthquake-damaged buildings must begin only after proper soil testing is conducted. Soil conditions are to be reviewed in ...

Canterbury University has done a large scale test on the sort of steel frame and concrete multistories common in New Zealand.

A century old: B.C. Legislature in Victoria. The B.C. cabinet office is fighting to stop the release of a 2006 report on the legislative building's earthquake readiness. A new national program helps ...

The owners of the Lynn Building in downtown Whitehorse say they're happy to have received a structural engineer's report which describes this week's earthquake damage as "superficial." The building's ...

Some of the busiest buildings on the University of British Columbia's Vancouver campus are at high risk of collapsing during an earthquake which could result in loss of life, according to a report ...