Articles Tagged with ''Fire''

Punch-list items are just about all that remain to be completed in the effort to rehabilitate Pittsburgh's Liberty Bridge

More than 209,000 residential buildings would likely require retrofitting if a proposed New York City law, spurred by the Trump Tower fire, is passed.

Massive blaze destroys Denver apartment building under construction on a tight urban site.

On Jan. 9, the American Society of Civil Engineers approved for publication its first manual of practice for performance-based structural fire engineering. 

After massive fires in Waltham, Mass. and Boston destroyed large residential complex employing wood-frame construction this summer, officials from both municipalities are questioning the safety of wood-frame construction for large apartment complexes and urging the state for stricter regulations on the size of such building.

A day before it was slated to have its fire-alarm inspection, a nearly completed 83-unit mixed-use building in Boston went up in flames.