Robert Moran and John J. Lewis hit upon six elements of buildings of ordinary construction that require firefighters' keen attention to help to avoid catastrophe on the fireground ...

Historic architecture made a clear distinction between the normal load-bearing wall up to the roof and the non-load bearing parapet wall on the terrace. In village homes if it was the simple mud ...

There is indeed a new parapet-inspection law mandating annual inspections of parapets, low walls that run along the edge of a roof, on buildings regardless of height.

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Don’t panic over your parapet inspection. We have an explainer of what’s required if you are a homeowner in the five boroughs of New York City. First, determine if you ...

The street between Second and Third streets had been closed since Saturday, March 15, after high winds knocked part of the parapet wall off the building at 34 N. Main St.

He was returning to re-open the doors to prop them open, when without warning, the parapet wall above the doors suddenly collapsed on him. The NIOSH investigator concluded that to prevent similar ...

A parapet, or low decorative wall along the roof of a building, partially collapsed in the French Quarter on Saturday morning, officials said.

UPDATE: Police say a parapet wall partially collapsed in the 600 block of Toulouse St. There are no injuries reported.

The compound wall is the nearest element to the observer and the terrace parapet wall is the farthest one; between the two sits the elevation of the building, as such framing it.

The roads surrounding the Chase Tower building in downtown South Bend are closed after an 80-foot section of a concrete wall fell from the 7th floor.