What it’s really going to take to build fire-resistant communities
Protecting individual houses is not enough. We need to rethink how we design entire neighborhoods and communities. When a ...
These homes survived the L.A. fires. Can they teach us how to rebuild?
The few structures still standing in Altadena and Pacific Palisades may offer clues on making homes more resistant to wildfire.
Grenfell Tower – what happens now?
To demolish high-rise buildings, engineers often opt for 'top down' techniques, whereby a number of small, car-sized ...
Why Older Homes Burn So Fast—And The Cost Of Building Ones That Don’t
Los Angeles’s Palisades and Eaton fires earlier this month, with their structure losses totaling 6,380 and 9,418, ...
JDB Builders Inc. Rebuilds Pacific Palisades Using Fire Resistant Sip Panels
In response to the latest wildfires, JDB Builders Inc., a design/build contractor with in-house architects, engineers, and ...
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Building fire-resistant futures: AAC's rise in American construction
As wildfires ravage California and climate change intensifies extreme weather events across the United States, an innovative building material is gaining traction: Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC). W ...
What Los Angeles can do to make its homes safer from wildfires as it rebuilds
Experts in fire mitigation and climate science said LA should use the fires as an opportunity to design more resilient ...
Bay Area property owners, builders working to make their homes fire-resistant
In the wake of recent wildfires, homeowners and builders in the Bay Area and across California are rethinking the ways to ...