Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fighting fire with fungi is the aim of a new line of research led by Australian scientists. The goal is to replace toxic flame ...

At right, Theresa Thompson, Standard Waterproofing’s owner and president, discusses below-grade waterproofing with employees Aaron Rockafellows and Allen Parks. The company is a subcontractor for ...

Australia is no stranger to fire-related disasters. The country experiences more than 17,000 residential fires each year. Each winter brings an increase in potential fire hazards due to the use of ...

SK Capital Partners ("SK Capital"), and Isolatek International ("Isolatek") today announced a definitive agreement under which Catchment, a private equity firm focused on transforming middle market ...

Federal investigators said Tuesday the World Trade Center buildings probably would not have collapsed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks if fireproofing had adhered firmly to the columns and floors.

The most comprehensive study yet on the destruction of the World Trade Center concludes that columns robbed of fireproofing failed first--not floor trusses--when the twin 110-story towers collapsed ...

NEW YORK, June 24 -- Fireproofing failures -- rather the impact of the plane crashes -- probably caused the World Trade Center towers to quickly collapse, architects and engineers told a federal panel ...

The twin towers of the World Trade Center would probably be standing today, if the impact of the planes used in the 11 September 2001 attack had not destroyed fireproofing material, experts say. After ...

CRYSTAL LAKE - L.B. Hall Fireproofing, a minority- and women-owned fireproofing company located in Crystal Lake, said Estefania Roa will become the company's new CEO. Roa became president and owner ...