San Francisco wants to identify thousands of concrete buildings across the city and retrofit them ahead of a major earthquake. Mayor London Breed has released an executive directive calling upon city ...

Many cities across Southern California now have earthquake retrofit laws for commercial or apartment buildings, and it’s possible you may live in one of them. NBC Universal, Inc. After the Northridge ...

With the City anticipating a whirlwind of construction as apartment complexes and building owners get their properties up to code, the City is hoping to increase tenant protections. On Jan. 27 the ...

Tens of thousands of dollars are on the line for the owners of rent-controlled buildings this week, as the Rent Control Board (RCB) considers whether to allow them to pass along earthquake retrofit ...

The Nisqually Earthquake was a wake-up call to build stronger buildings across Puget Sound. More than two decades later, experts say we’re still not fully prepared. “We have millions of people living ...

The owners of about 4,000 buildings across San Francisco will soon be on the hook to double check that the structures are seismically sound. Following years of warnings that San Francisco’s older ...

If you live or work in Beverly Hills and your building was constructed before 1978, it may be in need of a seismic retrofit. According to recently obtained data on 229 soft-story buildings in the city ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco is one step closer to finding out how many buildings are not seismically sound. ABC7 News spoke to one of the city's supervisors who is co-sponsoring an ordinance ...

USC wrote in a statement to the Daily Trojan, that it had retrofitted Mudd Hall, Webb Tower, Phillips Hall and the Dramatic Arts Building since 2003. However, it acknowledged not all buildings were in ...