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During the ongoing project "Spaceborne Multiple Aperture Interferometry and Sequential Patterns Extraction Techniques for Accurate Directional Ground and Infrastructure Stability Measurements" (DGI-SAR), between : "National Institute of RD for Earth Physics" (NIRDEP) and "Terrasigna Ltd" we learned that we can deliver to local authorities, in our case the Municipality of Bucharest and Nuclear Electric Plant at Cernavoda, Romania, important information about the safety of existing buildings through satellite monitoring. These data will be delivered through the service named: "Critical Infrastructure and Seismic Movement Monitoring Service", whose organization will be presented in the paper. Also we shall present other aspects concerning the safety of buildings during their lifetime. On a map of Bucharest, advanced InSAR interferometric techniques help locate certain regional or local anomalies exemplified by ground uplifting or subsidence. On such a map we overlap seismic intensities, periods of oscillation of Bucharest zones during a strong earthquake which could affect the behavior of constructions of the studied zone/region. This showed us possible endangered areas during an earthquake. Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) technique gave us the possibility to find out about settelemnts of some buildings and sites. This is an important factor for integrity of buildings during their lifetime and especially when they are in seismic regions, because settlement could occur because of soft soil or other reasons in the lifetime of a construction. Moreover, for the first time in the SAR industry, with the launch of the Sentinel-1 Constellation in 2014 continuous spatial and temporal (every 12 days) coverage of the whole Earth is provided and the data is available directly and free of charge. This is a great opportunity to define a robust service based on this mission. First Sentinel-1 InSAR results for Bucharest City will be presented in this paper. The satellite monitoring of areas of interest, metropolitan and industrial, gave us data, which processed, lead to mitigation of seismic risk and discover soil movements, like settlements, during the lifetime of a construction which could endanger its safety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]