Window glazing manufacturers have developed systems that can realize security goals and building codes without compromising ...

Fire resistant glazing and fire-rated glass door-sets manufactured by Promat UK have been installed to provide assured ...

Protecting individual houses is not enough. We need to rethink how we design entire neighborhoods and communities. When a ...

It’s almost impossible for experts to piece together why certain homes burned – most of the evidence is ash. But in the ...

Amid the charred rubble of burnt-down homes in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, you’ll find one Chautauqua ...

Wildfires in Los Angeles County in January serve as a reminder that Texas is no stranger to destructive grassfires and ...

Flames from the Hughes fire came within a mile of the Castaic jails before firefighters pushed them back. Inmate advocates ...

Lance Davis, a federal sustainability architect, outlined the government’s commitment to carbon reduction in new federal ...

These high-performing glass and film options provide an array of useful innovations for designers, from solar control and fire-resistance to high visible light transmittance and superior thermal ...

Structures, rather than vegetation, served as the primary fuel for spreading flames, but fire-resistant landscaping helps. It ...

but the interior tempered glass stayed in place. The roof is metal, with a fire-resistant layer underneath, and doesn’t have any vents that could let in embers. The house was tightly sealed ...