Many coastal towns along the West Coast can’t afford to build lifesaving structures in the event of surging waves, putting ...

Workers in Bangkok were scrambling to clear rubble and rescue any survivors from a powerful earthquake that hit Thailand and neighbouring Myanmar on Friday.

Two Deltona apartment projects remain unfinished after nearly five years of construction, drawing comparisons to another ...

In a trial, jurors examine whether safety rules were treated as priorities or obstacles, writes a personal injury attorney.

BANGKOK: Bangkok's underlying soft-soil basin could dramatically intensify earthquake shaking and extend how long tremors ...

The capital's underlying soft-soil basin could dramatically intensify earthquake shaking. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck Indonesia on Thursday, killing one, damaging some buildings and triggering tsunami ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's deadliest fire in years burned through the night, leaving at least 44 people dead and 279 reported missing with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise ...

A new development at the southeast corner of Chicago's East Lakeview community would clear away a medical office building that once housed the headquarters of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters union, and ...

The initial code mandating sprinklers dates to 2022 and was approved after international code authorities urged cities worldwide to require sprinklers in high rise buildings. The issue was first ...

Zig-zagging around the glass-and-steel perimeter of the UC Berkeley Grimes Engineering Center, 36 thin metal rods could be what it takes to prevent the building’s total destruction. The rods are the ...

The global inventory of buildings 200 meters and taller surpassed 2,580, spread across 222 cities in 52 countries, continuing a long-term upward trend in vertical urbanization, according to the ...