As businesses grapple with the current energy crisis and prepare for it to worsen, new research from JLL finds that these rising energy costs are expediting the move toward more efficient buildings.

To make buildings net zero doesn't mean demolition or new builds. It's about harnessing technology and design to retrofit ...

After the Northridge earthquake in 1994, significant steps were taken to upgrade building codes. Many of those put in place a couple of years after the quake. Nearly two decades later, the City of Los ...

Research from JLL finds that retrofitting rates need to triple to meet the goals in the Paris Agreement CHICAGO, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As businesses grapple with the current energy crisis and ...

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 ...

An international research group investigated hybrid heat pumps (HHPs) as a technically and economically feasible solution to decarbonizing heat supply in old residential buildings and found that it ...

Mill Valley will require earthquake retrofitting for some apartment buildings built before 1978. The City Council unanimously approved the ordinance on Monday. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The city of Los Angeles alone has more than 13,000 soft-story buildings — structures built over open parking areas, which are at ...

During an earthquake it’s not the shaking that injures, maims, and kills; it’s what the shaking does to cause buildings, bridges, and other structures to fail. Large pieces, such as parapet walls, can ...