Living in the Bay Area comes with a constant reminder of the seismic fault lines that crisscross the region, as minor earthquakes occur regularly. These tremors serve as stark reminders of the ...

Phius recently released, REVIVE 2024, a retrofit standard for more resilient buildings. The standard focuses on resilience against grid outages by ensuring structures remain habitable for at least a ...

The move towards prioritising retrofitting or refurbishing office buildings over demolish and rebuild shows no signs of ...

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 ...

The debate between preserving older buildings and constructing new projects has gained importance in modern urban planning. Questions of safety, susta.

Older buildings tend to leak heat through their walls, requiring much more energy to maintain a comfortable temperature in summer or winter. Those constructed prior to the late 1970s rarely meet today ...

HOK has won a second approval for the overhaul of a 1950s office block close to Blackfriars station in central London ...

A landmark climate report released this month by the United Nations predicted dire consequences for the world if more is not done to reduce CO2 levels in the atmosphere. More than 100 countries ...

This past week saw the introduction of the Build Canada Homes Act. This legislation establishes Build Canada Homes (BCH) as a ...

“As of now, there is no proposal for conducting Safety Audit of the building as retrofitting cost of the existing building ...