As cities across Canada try to cut emissions from homes, a new Concordia study shows significant differences in how well they ...

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Mechanical draft fans are used exclusively in power generation to move air and gas from one point to another. They create draft in a process system so that fluid media can be induced, forced, and ...

The L.A. City Council voted to allow landlords pass on exactly one half of the costs associated with seismically retrofitting a potentially unsafe building to their tenants. The decision came on ...

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Our interview with Kyle Tourjé of Alpha Structural Inc. on improving earthquake resilience when placing concrete.

Since Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti proposed the most sweeping earthquake-retrofitting laws in California history last year, the big question has been who will pay for the costly upgrades. Many ...