We put a lot of trust into structural engineering. Every time we drive on an overpass, pass through a tunnel, or enter a building – we trust our lives to the knowledge and workmanship of the people who built them.
Structural engineers design the bones and muscles that form and define […]
A worry apartment owners may face when doing earthquake retrofits, major renovations or repairs is the impact that construction could have on their tenants — and whether their Tenant Habitability Plan will add significant expenses to their project.
Extra costs might include precautions to minimize impacts, such as establishing alternative parking […]
City of San Diego officials are getting serious about resilience, and they’re turning to the community for feedback on what that means.
In 2020, the city completed a Climate Change Hazard Vulnerability Assessment, which has served as the foundation for a new plan – Climate Resilient SD – to ensure that […]
Humans, in ancient times, believed earthquakes were caused by huge animals, angry gods and giants.
Current folklore attempts to find causal links between moon phases and earthquakes, but this theory has been debunked by science.
What we do know is that earthquakes are frequent in California, and that Southern California is long […]
Will San Diego be at the center of California’s next deadly earthquake?
The odds are 99-1 that a killer quake – larger than anything we have known – will happen in our lifetimes, somewhere in the state.
It could wield its lethal blow in San Diego, according to California Earthquake Authority CEO […]
UC San Diego, home to one of the world’s foremost research centers for earthquake safety, also has several buildings on and off campus—including student housing, theaters, gymnasiums, laboratories, and cafes – that are at serious or severe risk to life, according to a seismic safety survey done of several University […]
The last time Lakisha Woods went to buy a car, she was sold on the safety features: forward collision warnings, automatic emergency braking, and blind spot and lane departure warnings, to name just a few.
“When I went to buy a home a year later, nobody told me about the safety […]
Concern over safety prompted closure in 2018. Is your building safe?
Long Beach Community Hospital reopened this year after being shut down in 2018 out of seismic safety concerns.
Worry over the safety of the building prompted its closure, but the facility reopened in January and was expected to […]
Saving lives is the ultimate concern when preparing for an earthquake, but building retrofits bring so many cost benefits that they make good business sense as well.
Retrofits enhance a building’s value by extending its longevity and making it safer for the people who occupy it. But there are […]
Earlier predictions of Southern California’s earthquake risk were dire enough as many as 1,800 deaths, 50,000 injuries, and $200 billion in damage with long-lasting social and economic impacts.
New figures from the U.S. Geological Survey are significantly worse: more than 1,000 dead in Los Angeles alone; major transportation corridors destroyed; water […]
