After massive fires in Waltham, Mass. and Boston destroyed large residential lightweight wood-frame building complexes this summer, officials from both municipalities are questioning the safety of ...

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While no building is truly fireproof, construction materials and systems can make a building fire safe. Fire-resistive construction gives time to discover a fire, suppress it before it spreads and ...

The recent push for larger and taller wood structures may seem like an architectural fad—plenty of hype, but only a few dozen completed projects globally. Concrete and steel still rule the world of ...

Four years ago, the Pritzker Prize–winner Tadao Ando spectacularly converted a 1920s apartment building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago into exhibition spaces for a gallery named—in ...

First of the critical building features is construction method. Building construction influences both fire behavior and structural stability under fire conditions. Combustible construction such as ...

John Heagy stepped out of a stairwell onto the third floor of a building known as T3 West Midtown in Atlantic Station. It was sunny and late morning, but there was a glow radiating off the wooden ...