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 ...

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 ...

Home hardening means using fire-resistant building materials and landscaping to protect buildings from heat, flames and a blast of embers during a firestorm. Here’s a brief overview of what that ...

A Santa Monica-based architect, Greg Chasen, shared an image on X of a now-famous home he designed that survived the Palisades fire. These are some of the design elements he attributed to its ...

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.