SAN FRANCISCO — Acting Wednesday on the 95th anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, experts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency called for new quake-resistant design and ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Researchers at the University of California, San Diego rocked and rattled a six-story steel frame building on a giant shake table Wednesday to see how the structure would withstand ...

An untold number of welded steel moment frame buildings constructed prior to 1994 have yet to be inspected, repaired, or retrofitted in the city of Los Angeles. Michael Rosebrock / Shutterstock Daniel ...

Santa Monica is poised to require safety improvements to as many as 2,000 earthquake-vulnerable buildings in what would be the nation’s most extensive seismic retrofitting effort. Santa Monica’s ...

On the 95 anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which levelled nearly 500 city blocks and killed 3,000 people, a U.S. agency has released a study suggesting that some modern steel-framed ...

Our independent reviews are funded in part by affiliate commissions, at no extra cost to our readers. Steel frame buildings provide a solid structure that can support all kinds of commercial usage.

Tubular Buildings are growing in usage as garages with living quarter or Barndominiums, or “barndos”. These buildings are hybrid metal structures that combine living quarters with a shop, barn, or ...

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Hot-dip galvanised substrate is produced on continuous zinc coating lines from either cold-rolled (thickness range 0.27mm to 2. mm) or hot-rolled (thickness 2.01mm to 3.0mm) steel substrate in coil ...

San Diego: California researchers plan to rock and rattle a six-story steel-frame building on the world's largest shake table to see if the structure can withstand the force equal to a 6.7-magnitude ...