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Tall-buildings experts, who are past chairs of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, are calling for more CTBUH research and development, better tools and greater building team collaboration to make high-rises more sustainable.

Climate activists engage in complicated maneuvers to reduce embodied carbon in buildings

A new report on the 2017 fatal London tower disaster details how fire spread.

In order to get new instruments and power train into the collider loop, engineers are constructing two new shafts, 10 m in diameter and 60 m deep.

Six months after an explosion and fire destroyed a grid-connected energy-storage battery facility in Surprise, Ariz., investigators are still trying to figure out all that happened. 

For more than two decades, science has recognized that building fires have become hotter, faster-spreading and more toxic. 

As cities clamor for ways to improve  transportation infrastructure and delivery of services such as power and water, digital models are being touted as a way for planners to try out different scenarios in the virtual world.