The National Institute of Standards and Technology started working toward its goal of a wind-load standard for tornado-resistant design after a tornado devastated Joplin, Mo., on May 22, 2011. A ...
Increasingly, explosive blast concerns are driving the design of sites, structures, façades and glazed openings for today’s commercial, institutional and industrial facilities to protect. Driven by ...
The document by The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) provides general guidelines and three worked design examples for the structural design of blast-resistant buildings. This new edition ...
As wildfires threaten densely populated areas worldwide with increasing frequency and intensity, Thomas Gernay, an associate professor in civil and systems engineering at Johns Hopkins University, is ...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R47612) on Oct. 17, 2023, entitled "Building Resilience: FEMA's Building Codes Policies and ...
California's 2025 Los Angeles wildfires have caused damages potentially exceeding $164 billion according to UCLA economists, ranking among the most costly natural disasters in U.S. history. Yet in the ...
MOSCOW, 29 July (BelTA - TV BRICS) - Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has introduced a new earthquake-resistant building design featuring state-of-the-art damping ...
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