LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An Eyewitness News investigation has found hundreds of residential buildings in Los Angeles are not meeting the city's latest earthquake retrofit requirements. Back in 2015, the ...

Building reuse represents a significant opportunity to avoid carbon emissions in the critical near term, but until recently, quantifying the carbon “savings” in a retrofit or reuse versus new ...

Mayor Gavin Newsom's second attempt at encouraging property owners to voluntarily retrofit vulnerable buildings was endorsed by the city's Planning Commission on Thursday. The proposal would expedite ...

MARTINEZ, Calif. (KGO) -- After the Napa quake, the mayor of Martinez released a public list of the buildings out of compliance and the exposure seems to have worked. "I think the only way to truly ...

The average life expectancy for a commercial roofing system is about 20 years – which means that every year 5% of the commercial, industrial, and institutional roofs in the United States need ...

Nationwide, local governments and jurisdictions are mandating climate change goals. Though different from state to state, a common thread between many of the goals is to reach some form of net-zero ...

The City of Seattle released a list of 1,160 buildings likely to suffer damage in an earthquake, as the latest step in a process dating back years to require retrofitting for earthquake safety. The ...

An Art Deco-style building that made history in Newark as the country’s first passenger airport terminal in 1934 now has an improbable new title: it’s the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s ...

The nation’s largest net zero plus commercial building retrofit was dedicated earlier this month: the Net Zero Plus Electric Training Institute located in Greater Los Angeles. The 144,000-square-foot ...

Eighteen months after Los Angeles passed the nation’s most sweeping seismic retrofit law, more than 15% of the city’s earthquake-vulnerable wood apartment buildings have begun the process of retrofits ...