Although glass is known for being fully recyclable, the US Environmental Protection Agency states that only about one third of post-consumer glass actually gets recycled. A new glass-based building ...

The Western U.S. has had to cope with more damaging, large-scale wildfires in recent years. The number of wildfires larger than 1,000 acres in the region stretching from Nebraska to California ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Alastair Grant, The Associated Press A view of the charred facade of the Grenfell Tower in London, Thursday, June 15, 2017. A massive fire raced through the ...

Concerns had been raised about the fire risk of cladding as far back as 2000 in a parliamentary report, it has emerged. The Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee launched an inquiry ...

Fires remain one of the global shipping industry's major challenges to not only the health and safety of employees working onboard container vessels but also to the security of its cargo. The industry ...

The Technology and Construction Court has delivered a series of High Court judgments (in Martlet Homes Ltd v Mulalley & Co Ltd; and LDC (Portfolio One) Ltd v George Downing Construction Ltd and ...

Grenfell Tower-style building cladding catastrophically failed a government test. The material should have resisted flames for 40 minutes. It lasted less than 9. At its hottest recorded point, the ...