The Evolution of Building Codes- How Technology is Changing the Landscape

Oct 26, 2024

New Delhi [India], October 26: The evolution of building codes has been a fundamental aspect of construction, ensuring safety, health, and environmental standards are...

New technology for retrofitting non-earthquake-resistant buildings can prevent damage in old settlements

Oct 26, 2022

The technology called semi-confined unreinforced brick masonry (SC-URBM) can resolve the problem of spread of settlements in earthquake-prone areas with constructions that have been...

59 pc of India's land mass prone to earthquakes; Kolkata high rises risky

Feb 09, 2023

According to experts, Kolkata which is in Seismic Zone 4, is not on the radar of major earthquake tremors, but being adjacent to zone...

Ministry of Labour & Employment launches BoCW MIS portal

Aug 21, 2024

The Ministry of Labour and Employment launched a Building and Other Construction Workers (BoCW) Management Information System (MIS) portal on Wednesday to review the...

DBS Bank India migrates to new IFSC and MICR codes of erstwhile Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB)

Feb 25, 2022

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 25 (ANI/PR Newswire): Following the amalgamation with DBIL, the IFSC & MICR codes of all branches of erstwhile LVB have...

Japan: Magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes Ishikawa prefecture, no tsunami threat

Jun 02, 2024

Wajima and Suzu cities in Ishikawa Prefecture experienced tremors at an intensity of upper 5 on Japan's seismic scale.