Articles Tagged with ''earthquake''

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The magnitude 7.4 earthquake is the most severe to impact Taiwan in nearly 25 years.

Former ENR Newsmaker was a "go-to" contractor on several major infrastructure emergencies in California, with a celebration of life set for Feb. 29 in Sacramento.

Pei has had an affinity for wood for 20 of his 44 years. “It’s a natural material that is close to art and architecture,” says the associate professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines.

Kit Miyamoto’s effort as global CEO and humanitarian coordinator at engineering and disaster management firm Miyamoto International and president of the nonprofit Miyamoto Global Disaster Relief is not just work— it’s personal.

The TallWood researchers expect to publish design guidelines by the end of the year for the resilient post-tensioned wall system.  

ENR editors are known for their prolific and sometimes challenging overseas travel, especially in reporting on disasters of all kinds.

Technical experts say quakes’ death toll and destruction were made worse by systemic problems in the nation’s building industry.

While a great deal of critical infrastructure is up and running again, an ongoing housing crisis and internal displacements due to a pair of earthquakes last month are still felt acutely in southern Turkey.

There’s a grim familiarity to what the world is witnessing in Turkey and Syria, where powerful double earthquakes spread death and misery over such a wide area.