Articles Tagged with ''Fire''

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.

Following the deadly June 14 London Grenfell Tower fire that has killed at least 79 people, a nationwide investigation determined that dozens of U.K. high-rise buildings are potentially unsafe.

In the days before a large fire closed Pittsburgh’s Liberty Bridge for 24 days in September, crews working on the $80-million bridge rehabilitation squelched two minor fires, according to Occupational Safety and Health Administration documents obtained by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette under the Freedom of Information Act.