As editor-in-chief, I have the special privilege every year of presenting the ENR Award of Excellence in New York City and helping make a video about the winner.

Kit Miyamoto’s effort as global CEO and humanitarian coordinator at engineering and disaster management firm Miyamoto International and president of the nonprofit Miyamoto Global Disaster Relief is not just work— it’s personal.

ENR editors are known for their prolific and sometimes challenging overseas travel, especially in reporting on disasters of all kinds.

Technical experts say quakes’ death toll and destruction were made worse by systemic problems in the nation’s building industry.

While a great deal of critical infrastructure is up and running again, an ongoing housing crisis and internal displacements due to a pair of earthquakes last month are still felt acutely in southern Turkey.

As rescue crews continue to dig out survivors from collapsed buildings in the wake of two severe earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6, killing thousands, engineers' response efforts turn toward cataloguing and evaluating structures that failed or suffered significant damage.

New research suggests that augmenting natural processes in soils can be a sustainable approach to stabilizing buildings in quake-prone zones. 

Sacramento-based Myers & Sons Construction was mobilizing to begin repairs the same day.

Puerto Rico, which has been experiencing seismic activity since late December, was rocked Jan. 6 and 7 when a pair of strong earthquakes took down buildings and caused widespread power outages, according to news reports.

A magnitude 7.1 temblor struck northeast of Los Angeles on Friday, July 5 at 8:19 p.m., a day after a 6.4 magnitude rocked the same area, knocking out power to thousands and prompting questions on proper calibration of a recently introduced earthquake early-warning system.