Two Salinas high schools are getting a makeover as part of a district-wide construction plan. Salinas and North Salinas High Schools broke ground on new two-story steel-frame buildings this week. The ...

A 10-story cold-formed steel-framed building will soon be put to the test on an earthquake simulator at the University of California San Diego to see how well it can withstand earthquakes. The UC San ...

Like a giant Erector set, a two-story, steel-frame house took shape this week inside a cavernous warehouse in Rohnert Park. It's the latest project of Sonoma County developer Hugh Codding, who built ...

Tara Hutchinson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, is the lead researcher on a series of tests on a 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego ...