NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 29-- The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance issued the following news: A steadily increasing number of Tennesseans live or work in multi-story or high-rise buildings ...

A viral video shows an air-conditioner technician refusing to service a dangerously placed outdoor unit on the 23rd floor of a high-rise, citing life-threatening risks for minimal pay. The footage, ...

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) engineers recently released a two-disk DVD set that demonstrates how Positive Pressure Ventilation (PPV), a technique in which powerful fans force ...

Dozens of vehicles parked behind a North Bergen high-rise at the foot of the Palisades were badly damaged in a rockslide, the second in the past three months. The rockslide occurred overnight Sunday, ...

Days after a deadly blaze in Hong Kong killed at least 151 people, China has ordered a nationwide fire safety inspection of its more than one million residential and public use high-rise buildings.

Even today, there is ongoing debate among builders, safety experts and first responders about whether New York City is doing enough to reduce the risks of high-rise fire catastrophes—all as a new ...

Objective The aim of this whitepaper is to illustrate the safety risks that face occupants of high-rise buildings. Through an examination of the vulnerabilities of high-rise buildings, the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A broken glass panel from an under-construction, high-rise fell onto a downtown Austin street Wednesday afternoon, prompting an investigation and other safety measures by the company ...

Fatal fall investigation: Toronto police are probing the death of a toddler who fell from a high-rise apartment in North York on Sunday. Another tragedy in weeks: Two weeks earlier, a six-year-old ...

As the number of challenges associated with high-rise buildings continue to increase, so too does the responsibility of the fire department to know as much as possible about these buildings’ design, ...