The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has launched a new government-wide effort to boost national resiliency and reduce energy costs. Under the National Initiative to Advance Building ...
What would you say is responsible for the rising case of building collapse in the country? Building collapse has been a major challenge in Nigeria, leading to massive economic and human loss due to ...
Eighteen years after the National Building Code (NBC) was signed by former Housing Minister Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, there is no enabling law to operate it. The need to domesticate the code to save the ...
The wake of Hurricane Andrew in Dade County, Fla., in August 1992. Fifty-four people died in the storm, which caused over $27 billion in damages and led to Florida’s adoption of a statewide building ...
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell conducts media interviews at the National Hurricane Center to promote hurricane readiness on June 1, 2022. (FEMA photo) June 1 officially marks the beginning of the ...
Concordia University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Universitié Concordia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. Steady population growth and ...
Miami-Dade County has some of the strongest building codes in the world, designed to withstand the punishing 150 mph winds of Category 5 storms like Hurricane Andrew, which hit 30 years ago and ...
Cordoned off Epsom View Apartment in Uthiru, Nairobi County that sank on May 07,2024. All tenants who lived in the building are accounted for. The building is said to have been marked by National ...