The few structures still standing in Altadena and Pacific Palisades may offer clues on making homes more resistant to wildfire.

The Los Angeles fire disaster and the many fires we regularly experience in South Africa are a powerful reminder of the need for fire-resistant building materials and methods across the housing ...

Protecting individual houses is not enough. We need to rethink how we design entire neighborhoods and communities. When a ...

they face new enemies that drop higher-value materials, coming with bigger heat or cold resist effectiveness. So, here is a list of materials with different values to craft cold or heat-resistant ...

China is building a new military command centre near Beijing that is 10 times the size of the Pentagon, US intelligence officials have said. Satellite images of the base, about 20 miles south-west ...

Los Angeles’s Palisades and Eaton fires earlier this month, with their structure losses totaling 6,380 and 9,418, ...

Researchers at the University of Maine have managed to 3D print an organic building material with the strength of steel. The SM2ART Nfloor is printed as a single piece in about 30 hours, which is a ...

“Costs of steel, bricks and other building materials have gone up quite significantly,” he said at a press conference in conjunction with Henry Butcher Malaysia Perspective 2025 here yesterda ...

Natural building using less flammable materials gain interest post-wildfires ... walls made of insulating straw and a coating of fire-resistant plaster. Pedersen was one of about 40 people who ...

Many experts say luck does play a part. But they also say there are many ways that homes can be made less vulnerable to fire.

Use of fire-resistant materials is critical ... Double-pane windows significantly slow heat coming from the burning building next door. “The outside layer protects the inside layer until ...