Carolyn Laverty: 'Surveyors are well placed to bridge the gap between sustainability ambitions and practical delivery' ...

After the Northridge earthquake in 1994, significant steps were taken to upgrade building codes. Many of those put in place a couple of years after the quake. Nearly two decades later, the City of Los ...

A scientist from Cambridge University has investigated the economic benefit of combining a basic energy-efficiency retrofit with the installation of rooftop PV and has found solar arrays help to ...

Operators must push through challenges when retrofitting existing buildings to reap the benefits of high-efficiency heating ...

Los Angeles residents strongly back the city’s landmark earthquake retrofit law, a new poll has found, despite decades of conventional wisdom that such a rule would be politically unpopular because of ...

To support the worldwide struggle to reduce carbon emissions, many cities have made public pledges to cut their carbon emissions in half by 2030, and some have promised to be carbon neutral by 2050.

Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed! OVID-19 has caused the ...

In today’s economy, it’s hard for middle-income employees to find housing in the areas they work as a result of the ever-increasing cost of living and limited supply of affordable/workforce housing.

After a 6.4 earthquake in Ridgecrest on the Fourth of July and a 7.1 in the same region just two days later, we Southern California residents understandably felt some ...

Click here if you are unable to view this gallery on a mobile device. OAKLAND — To prevent hundreds of multi-story, wood-frame apartment buildings from collapsing ...