India, Nov. 4 -- When disasters strike - whether floods, earthquakes, forest fires, or cyclones - success in rescue and relief operations often depends not only on the courage of responders but ...

In the past two decades the design world has increasingly turned its attention to emergency preparedness, particularly in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001. The first major ...

Chicago-based virtual design and construction consultant VIATechnik was already working with the Quebec Wood Export Bureau in March on a generative design solution for rapidly deployed wooden ...

Tropical storm season and the ongoing California wildfires have served as a reminder that COVID-19 isn’t the only disaster in town. But like the pandemic has done for most everything else, it’s made ...

Data centers go offline. Regions have issues. Services that everything depends on suddenly stop responding. Sometimes it’s a ...

When one thinks of designing buildings to better withstand earthquakes, materials like flexible concrete may come to mind. However, a group of researchers led by engineer John van der Lindt from ...

When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as "once-in-a-century," and heat waves as "record-breaking." While these ...

The Cargo Door Fiasco - American Airlines Flight 96: Prelude to a Catastrophe. Of all the airliners certificated over the years by the Federal Aviation Administration and its predecessors, the DC-10 ...

A new exhibit at the Japan House in Los Angeles showcases high-concept thinking about what is possible for how cities and the natural world could coexist in the face of climate change and the natural ...

With nothing more than a little snippet of javascript, you can place a gigantic, temporary "donate" button over your website. Can “Massive Personalization” Rebuild Quake-Devastated Chile? Architect ...