The retrofit of New York's Empire State Building has made it one of the world’s most energy efficient buildings. Through a ...

As we prepare to leave 2024 behind and look ahead to 2025, it’s important to recognize how far the commercial HVAC industry has come—especially as businesses across the world continue seeking our help ...

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 ...

Earthquakes are among the greatest global challenges for the safety of structures. Existing buildings constructed before the ...

As the construction industry faces mounting pressure to reduce its carbon footprint, retrofitting has emerged as a cornerstone of sustainable building practice. Unlike new construction, which ...

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.

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 ...

Editor: In the context of COP26 and the heightened urgency for decarbonisation strategies, retrofitting existing buildings for new purposes is a positive measure to ensure the sustainability of the ...

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 ...

Gov. Nelson Dayanghirang orders Davao Oriental LGUs to assess and retrofit public buildings amid Philippine Trench earthquake warnings.

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For nearly a decade, Los Angeles has touted its sweeping earthquake safety ordinance — the nation’s toughest, which requires thousands of buildings to be evaluated and strengthened if necessary. But ...