Architects, structural engineers, facility managers and contractors working with masonry structures would do well to consider more than building codes when developing new designs. In fact, real-world ...

Masonry construction — placing block or brick during construction of a structure — is tremendously labor intensive. The block or brick, often hundreds of thousands of them on a typical project, must ...

How tall a building is also has an impact on when the elevator shafts go up. Much taller buildings need the shafts to be ...

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and City Commissioner Dan Saltzman are facing a lawsuit over how the city enforces laws involving old brick or stone buildings that could crumble during an earthquake.

A one-story masonry structure survived two days of intense earthquake jolts after engineering researchers put it to the test. A one-story masonry structure survived two days of intense earthquake ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Owners of unreinforced masonry buildings must retrofit them to strong new earthquake standards, the Portland City Council decided Wednesday. The Portland City Council passed the ...

Unreinforced masonry buildings in the 1100 block of Garden Street in San Luis Obispo are scheduled to be retrofitted as part of the Garden Street Terraces project. dmiddlecamp@thetribunenews.com A ...

The city of Portland has halted its work to determine what to do with the approximately 1,600 aging brick and stone buildings that are predicted to collapse during the next big earthquake. With the ...

Seattle officials could finally require seismic retrofits for masonry buildings, but not this year. In the list of 1,141 masonry buildings in Seattle that are at risk, 647 are the most vulnerable ...

US Masonry and Building Products said it purchased York Flashings LLC, which manufactures products designed to seal joints ...