In fact, there would have been no way to move 1,000 people down the hill faster than the fire was moving in on them. Instead, students and staff gathered in the fire-resistant gym on the ...

In the wake of devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, the urgency for homeowners and construction professionals to embrace fire-resistant building practices has reached a critical peak. Choosing ...

Here are five key considerations when building a home in wildfire-prone ... non-combustible options that provide exceptional resistance to fire, such as concrete masonry. Beyond fire safety ...

“You can almost think of it as a domino effect,” says Michael Gollner, an associate professor at UC Berkeley’s Fire Research Lab. All it takes is for one house to burst into flames for those ...

Superior's Town Trustees Monday night passed an ordinance supporting more stringent building codes in the hard hit Sagamore neighborhood when it comes to fire resistant building, but created an ...

In the aftermath of the L.A. wildfires, advocates for natural building techniques argue that materials like adobe and cob (which use sand, clay and straw) not only offer fire-resistance ...

for the purpose of investigating the resistance to fire of building materials and elements of structure.

We must protect our communities by building with fire-resistant concrete masonry, preventing future devastations” — Daniel D. Correa, Ph.D. LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, January 12 ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. About 4 million Californians live in what Cal Fire categorizes as “high” or “very high” fire danger zones.

In November, the newly established industrial fire resistance test facility in Cape Town, Ignis Fire Testing, tested nonCrete’s unique low-steel, low-carbon vaulted floor system.