Homeowners in the East Bay are getting a chance to learn how they can do retrofitting work on their residence themselves while taking advantage of state grants available to help cover the cost of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Nisqually Earthquake was a wake-up call to build stronger buildings across Puget Sound. More than two decades later, experts ...

"Soft story" buildings with weak ground floors proved vulnerable in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and are the focus of San Francisco's new seismic retrofitting mandate. SAN FRANCISCO, United States ...

How does retrofitting work and could it transform the sustainability credentials of your home? Expert Heather Marshall, ...