The Los Angeles wildfires recently showed people around the world that celebrity or not, no one is safe from fire.
My home is an entirely concrete structure with a dirt-over ... insurers in California are mandated to consider a home’s fire-resistant elements. It seems you get credit for screening vents ...
Dr. Rami Hawileh's research, conducted over ten years at the AUS Structures and Construction Materials Lab, focuses on creating concrete with non-metallic reinforcements and eco-friendly materials ...
As wildfires ravage California and climate change intensifies extreme weather events across the United States, an innovative building material is gaining traction: Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC). W ...
As Los Angeles recovers from its devastating wildfires, environmental engineers, urban planners and natural disaster experts ...
There’s no such thing as a fire-proof house, but certain design choices can help protect a home during a wildfire. As the Santa Monica-based architect Abeer Sweis watched the Palisades Fire lay waste ...
Facing the uncertainties of droughts, wildfires, blackouts, poor air quality, mudslides and flooding, here are some ideas ...
Los Angeles’s Palisades and Eaton fires earlier this month, with their structure losses totaling 6,380 and 9,418, ...
The Vogts designed their Malibu house to withstand disasters. But they were only beginning to learn the mental toll the fires ...
In response, the city adopted concrete and steel for reconstruction, recognizing the need for more fire-resistant structures. However, such shifts are rare and often localized, with the broader ...