Every year, California’s commercial and apartment buildings burn through 109 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of buildings in California share a flaw with the structures that collapsed in Turkey and Syria earlier in February, but ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with LAist News reporter Jacob Margolis about how many buildings in California are still susceptible to earthquake damage. After the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria ...

California is home to some of the tallest buildings on the West Coast, with two towers rising more than 1,000 feet above downtown Los Angeles and San Francisco. While California’s seismic activity and ...

Thousands of buildings in California share a flaw with the structures that collapsed in Turkey and Syria earlier in February, but experts say it's unlikely that a similar crisis could take place in ...

California’s permits for new housing dipped to an 11-year low, minus the pandemic-era lockdowns. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed Census Bureau data on California building permits, focusing on how the ...

Construction professionals carry the critical responsibility of delivering structures that are safe, habitable, accessible and energy efficient. A key component of that responsibility is adherence to ...

California became the first state to regulate embodied carbon in its building code. That’s changing the construction industry even beyond the state border. Starting this year, the part of California’s ...

The scenes of devastation from the Morocco earthquake are both horrifying and grimly familiar. Piles of mud bricks littering whole neighborhoods where homes and businesses once stood. Rescuers walking ...

A series of forest fires in California put additional pressure on state officials to reduce its embodied carbon footprint. (Joel Mott/Unsplash) As previously reported by AN, embodied carbon refers to ...

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — About two dozen people forced to flee Southern California apartment buildings endangered by a tumbling oceanside hill were warned Thursday that they may be evacuated ...

The future of several prominent federal buildings in California that provide resources for broad swaths of the state’s residents is in jeopardy, as the Trump administration seeks to reduce the ...