Crews are expected to complete efforts to shore up a six-story, 45,000 square-foot building here that is at risk of collapsing in very strong winds, officials said. Steel rods and temporary bracing ...

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Seismic upgrades for high-tech manufacturing behemoth Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Corvallis, Ore., campus presented a different type of retrofit challenge: to strengthen a 26-year-old light industrial ...

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High desert communities in Southern California on Saturday assessed damage and braced for potentially dangerous aftershocks from a major earthquake that shook buildings, ruptured gas lines and sparked ...

An aggressively simple, 5,000-square-foot building on 72 hilly acres in Healdsburg started with a chance encounter three years ago. "I happened to meet my client (a dot-com entrepreneur) at a party ...

SAN ANTONIO — Randall K. Hoover had been hesitant to put money into the battered Santa Monica Hotel, which he's owned since the late 1990s, because it's located in a sketchy neighborhood. Though it's ...

The Duluth Economic Development Authority previously had been ordered by Judge Eric Hylden to take steps to brace up and preserve the fire-damaged Pastoret Terrace and Paul Robeson Ballroom buildings, ...