Elementia USA is proud to announce the appointment of Mr. Timothy Kuebler as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Plycem USA (dba ...

Building experts tell Action News there are roughly 50 ways a fire can burn a house, and eliminating half or more can go a long way to preventing catastrophe.

Oregon announced that homeowners in high-risk wildfire areas of the state are required to reduce vegetation on their ...

"Basically everything had asbestos in it," says architect Aleksandra Popovska—but that was the first of many pricey surprises ...

For decades, Los Angeles has had some of the strongest building codes for earthquakes and localized fires, but large-scale ...

Construction is completed at The Lacy at South Main, a 318-unit apartment residence in Kennesaw, Georgia. McShane Construction Company built the development on behalf of repeat client Highpoint ...

There’s also consensus, meanwhile, about problematic carbon dioxide, with six in 10 Americans supporting a carbon-neutral goal for the U.S. in 25 years. Here, too—beyond the more obvious ...

Drywall may be the go-to finishing material for interior walls, but it's far from being the only choice. Have a look at these ...

Here’s what we should be using instead. There’s wide consensus that single-use plastics are bad for environmental and human ...

Reducing vegetation around homes to create a buffer zone of defensible space and installing certain fire-resistant features such as metal roofs or fiber cement siding can make a home ... a wildfire ...

Many of these experts no longer use wood siding. Where it is used, or still allowed, it needs to have a fire-resistant ...

Siding might be considered a decorative feature by some, but it protects your home from the elements and contributes to ...