Manufactured homes usually sit on a concrete slab for support, but if an earthquake hits, this may not be enough to stabilize the house. Homeowners may want to consider installing a new foundation for ...

This project quantified the improvement in structural behavior of reinforced concrete shear walls retrofitted with a new method that allows the walls to rock over the foundation and self-center after ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Some of the buildings that collapsed during the massive earthquakes in Syria and Turkey are known as non-ductile concrete structures. "The thing about concrete is it's very ...

San Francisco wants to inventory its concrete buildings to determine which structures are most vulnerable to damage during the next major earthquake. Mayor London Breed issued an executive directive ...

While we may hear about ways of constructing new buildings to make them earthquake-resistant, what about all the buildings that are standing already? Well, that's where a new concrete developed at ...

A draft list of San Francisco concrete buildings reveals properties that the city says could be vulnerable to earthquakes and may need costly upgrades. SAN FRANCISCO — Famous historic sites, ...

An earlier version of this page included retrofit information from the city of Los Angeles that contained numerous errors. This story has been updated and buildings from Los Angeles have been removed ...