Additional material and pictures provided by Ellington Cross LLC. In the past, the conventional method for handling loose sands, soft clays and poorly compacted fills on a construction project was to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The earthquake-ready Burnside Bridge Project will receive $10 million in funding through Oregon Metro's Regional Flexible Funding Allocation. Metro Council approved nearly a quarter ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Concrete structures of the past weren’t built to withstand the fury of an earthquake but a groundbreaking solution from engineers at Purdue University could change that. A ...

Canadian engineers have designed a new structural system that could significantly enhance the ability of high-rise buildings to withstand powerful earthquakes, ensuring not only the survival of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Despite the ever-looming threat of a major earthquake hitting the Cascadia Subduction Zone, efforts to ...

The imperative for such innovation in that field is massive. For instance, despite lasting only 20 seconds, the 1995 earthquake that struck Kobe, Japan destroyed 100,000 buildings, and the 2011 ...

THE Philippines sits along the Pacific Ring of Fire — the belt of tectonic activity around the Pacific Ocean where more than 75 percent of the world’s volcanoes and 90 percent of earthquakes occur.

We live in an age of increasing wildfire disasters because more of us are living in places where wildfires and human development collide. Right now, fast-moving wildfires are forcing mass evacuations ...

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 ...