As the popularity of vegetated roofs grows in the U.S., Building Teams are finding new methods for greening rooftops. A recent trend is to adapt green roof technology for low- and steep-slope ...

At last year's high-stakes interview for a lead architect to shape a $1.2-billion retractable-roof stadium for the National Football League's Atlanta Falcons, 360 Architecture's Bill Johnson staged ...

According to the 2018 edition of the International Building Code, vegetative roof systems need to meet the same fire classification requirements as the roof covering ...

Prospect Heights fire Chief Drew Smith experienced déjà vu when he arrived on the scene of an apartment fire Monday night that displaced about 100 residents in neighboring Mount Prospect. “It was an ...

Roofing industry expert Joseph Schwetz maintains that there is an important difference between what building codes require and what the construction insurance industry—notably mutual insurance firm ...

Ever since firefighters have been going to building fires, it has been paramount that if they want to survive the destructive force of fire in a building, they must have knowledge of how buildings are ...

Montreal’s controversial Olympic Stadium has a complex history marked by fires, debt, and labor strikes. Total construction costs throughout the stadium’s history are estimated at $4.1 billion. Amid ...

Chinese studio 3andwich Design has completed the Blue Insight Cave Space, a coastal viewing platform and events space in Fujian Province, China, that features cave-like interiors concealed beneath a ...

The winning proposal, selected via an international competition, will serve as permanent home to the sizable art collection ...

It is a giant electric radiator that they forgot to turn on due to a software failure. Apple's new Chicago store is a beautiful thing, with a 111 by 98 foot carbon fibre roof that Apple says is ...

Laboratory testing found two of the Chinese steel samples were so poor they did not contain carbon – meaning they could not ...