Buildings Resilience

21 November, 2020

What is the Cost of Disaster?
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What is the Cost of Disaster?

Buildings Resilience, earthquake preparedness, Earthquake Protection, Earthquake Resilience, Earthquake Retrofit

What is the Cost of Disaster?

By Ali Sahabi|2020-11-21T01:01:06+00:00November 21st, 2020|Buildings Resilience, earthquake preparedness, Earthquake Protection, Earthquake Resilience, Earthquake Retrofit|

What is the cost of being unprepared for disaster?

In California, the numbers are staggering – and growing.

This year alone, the Golden State has seen natural disaster in the form of COVID-19 as well as record-breaking wildfires, bringing price tags to taxpayers in the tens of billions of dollars.

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12 January, 2020

Make it Last: Extending the Life of Today’s Buildings through Adaptability and Resilience
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Make it Last: Extending the Life of Today’s Buildings through Adaptability and Resilience

Buildings Resilience, Buildings Vulnerabilities

Make it Last: Extending the Life of Today’s Buildings through Adaptability and Resilience

By Ali Sahabi|2020-06-18T01:04:09+00:00January 12th, 2020|Buildings Resilience, Buildings Vulnerabilities|

Don’t throw the past away
You might need it some rainy day
Dreams can come true again
When everything old is new again

These popular lyrics, from the 1974 movie “All That Jazz,” hints at our tendency to grasp fleetingly at the latest trend —always believing that something newer and better will come around […]