To prepare for the Big One, California was counting on a $33 million grant to strengthen old apartment buildings.

After being given a 100-year-old building next to the Albina Head Start in Northeast Portland's Alberta District, Head Start ...

Older buildings, especially brick, need to be retrofitted to preserve ... “So, essentially, what an earthquake retrofit is connecting the knee bone to the leg bone. It is connecting the building ...

The brick walls will peel away from the building ... a professor of structural engineering at PSU and a renowned researcher on seismic retrofitting. There has also been a lack of clarity about ...

Mills said another big worry are brick chimneys ... assistance to help owners retrofit homes. Another safety system you might want to consider is a seismic safety valve, which automatically ...

However, the cracks will not be repaired until the retrofit project is funded ... masonry walls (URMs), or thin brick walls that act as the gravity and seismic “resisting system,” city ...

Are AB 300 schools earthquake ... stage of the retrofit process 459 structures are still in the process of being assessed for seismic safety All tilt-up, non-ductile concrete and brick buildings ...

“The Northridge earthquake was a tremendously powerful ... So, we have retrofitting in those buildings, more retrofitting in masonry, brick buildings, things that are more rigid," said Abbott.

There are two types of mandatory retrofit programs in the city of Los Angeles and thousands of buildings identified in need of seismic upgrades ... that are made out of brick, stone, tile or ...