LONDON -- Tests on exterior building materials in other high-rise buildings conducted after the devastating west London fire has shown that some of the panels submitted were combustible, British Prime ...

A unique private-public cooperation allowed the city of Charleston, S.C. to build the new $142-million neo-classical Gaillard Center. Plans included a performance hall not unlike old European opera ...

At least three states, as well as Washington, D.C., have deregulated the form of external building cladding investigators now believe was primarily responsible for the rapid spread of a blaze ...

For more than two decades, science has recognized that building fires have become hotter, faster-spreading and more toxic. One engineer blames it on the world’s “addiction to polymers,” a reference to ...

Up to 1,450 residential buildings may need remediation work, including about 250 high-rises Up to £3bn of public money may have to be spent assessing and removing potentially flammable cladding from ...

Although glass is known for being fully recyclable, the US Environmental Protection Agency states that only about one third of post-consumer glass actually gets recycled. A new glass-based building ...

SINGAPORE — A manager has been convicted of cheating over a type of unsafe building cladding that was later involved in a fatal fire in Singapore as well as London’s Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 that ...