Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and City Commissioner Dan Saltzman are facing a lawsuit over how the city enforces laws involving old brick or stone buildings that could crumble during an earthquake.

Brick and stone masonry have served as reliable and valuable elements of commercial building projects for centuries, gracing urban and rural landscapes since time immemorial. Building Teams have ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Members of the news media are invited to the University at Buffalo North Campus on Friday, June 7, for a series of earthquake tests. Researchers will use a shake table – a large ...

Before most students are awake, Jennifer LaFreda and Bill Miller are already up and working, busy restoring the eighty-year-old Boilerhouse — soon to be 200 Elm Drive — just north of MacMillan ...

Seattle officials could finally require seismic retrofits for masonry buildings, but not this year. In the list of 1,141 masonry buildings in Seattle that are at risk, 647 are the most vulnerable ...

The scenes of devastation from the Morocco earthquake are both horrifying and grimly familiar. Piles of mud bricks littering whole neighborhoods where homes and businesses once stood. Rescuers walking ...

Plans to put netting on a building close to York Minster to stop masonry from falling on to the street below have been ...