Building a fire-resistant residence starts with the right materials.

The few structures still standing in Altadena and Pacific Palisades may offer clues on making homes more resistant to wildfire.

The Los Angeles fire disaster and the many fires we regularly experience in South Africa are a powerful reminder of the need for fire-resistant building ... Richard Walls, who attended nonCrete ...

Whenever Sema Genc enters a room, the first place she looks is the ceiling: would it hold up in an earthquake, or would she be trapped under the rubble again?"That fear is always with you," said the ...

Two years after surviving the devastating 2023 earthquake that killed her family in Antakya, Sema Genç reflects on her trauma ...

Chiayi County reported two fires following the earthquake early on Tuesday morning, at a residential property and at a printing factory, but there were no injuries. An apartment building in Chiayi ...

Natural building using less flammable ... hay bale houses have been constructed with walls made of insulating straw and a coating of fire-resistant plaster. Pedersen was one of about 40 people ...

The earthquake ... and walls around the campus. Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che (黃偉哲) said that civil and structural engineers would submit a list of dangerous buildings this morning. Residents who were ...

The restaurant is a one-story wooden building spanning 294 square meters, and seats 75 people. It was built using earthquake-resistant construction methods and features a ceiling that resembles waves.

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TAIPEI - A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck a mountainous ... Since then, Taiwan has updated and enhanced its building code to incorporate quake-resistant construction methods, such as steel ...

This is the dramatic moment a 6.0-magnitude earthquake rattled Taiwan ... Taiwan has updated and enhanced its building code to incorporate quake-resistant construction methods, such as steel ...