This Christmas Day marks 21 years since the terrifying Indian Ocean tsunami. As we remember the hundreds of thousands of ...

Post-disaster reconstruction should focus on more than just the rebuilding of damaged and destroyed structures and cities. It also provides an opportunity to employ improved design methods, ...

Multiple billion-dollar disaster events occurred throughout 2017, illustrating the increasing vulnerability of the US residential housing stock to widespread damages associated with disasters.

The Sumatra flash floods are not isolated incidents, and housing reconstruction must not neglect this fact. How does the ...

PORTSMOUTH, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On November 1 st, Insurcomm, a leading provider of disaster restoration and construction services, acquired Theraclean Restoration, a trusted leader in property ...

Coordination is important in engineering and construction projects; but it becomes critical in crisis situations such as recovery and reconstruction after a natural disaster. Due to its criticality ...

Tim Keaton, Hazard Mitigation Planner with the West Virginia Emergency Management Division, served as host of the April 19 State Mitigation Planning Workshop in South Charleston, W.Va. The state ...

Our reporting team documented for the first time last year that Santos and Mariano’s symptoms after prolonged exposure to toxins were not unique. The team worked with experts to design a questionnaire ...

The World Bank Group is providing almost $1 billion to support Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) reconstruction, in response to a government request A technical team from the Bank is in the Philippines to help ...

If there is no national status, Febrin used the example of the eruption of Mount Merapi, which was only categorized as a ...

The Hyogo Prefectural Government held the "creative reconstruction summit" on Saturday, as this year marks the 30th anniversary of a devastating earthquake that hit Kobe and surrounding areas in ...