Crews are expected to complete efforts to shore up a six-story, 45,000 square-foot building here that is at risk of collapsing in very strong winds, officials said. Steel rods and temporary bracing ...

Seismic upgrades for high-tech manufacturing behemoth Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Corvallis, Ore., campus presented a different type of retrofit challenge: to strengthen a 26-year-old light industrial ...

High desert communities in Southern California on Saturday assessed damage and braced for potentially dangerous aftershocks from a major earthquake that shook buildings, ruptured gas lines and sparked ...

An engineer suggested soon after the September 2010 earthquake that a new wall be built to shore up the damaged Press building, an inquiry has been told. The roof of the historic central Christchurch ...

Situated between sparkling Bay water and Highway 101, the Bair Island neighborhood in Redwood City bridges views of nature with a critical Peninsula corridor. Longtime Redwood City resident Chris ...