Radio signal dead zones can create a potentially dangerous situation for emergency responders, yet dozens of high-rises in Fort Lauderdale have them, city officials say. That means police and ...

Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades burned through the night, leaving at least 44 people dead and 279 reported missing, with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise apartment ...

Part of a high-rise apartment building in New York City collapsed Wednesday morning, leaving a corner of the building a pile of rubble. The city’s fire department said it had no immediate reports of ...

A portion of a New York City high-rise apartment building collapsed Wednesday morning following "some type of explosion," New York City Mayor Eric Adams said. There have been no reports of injuries ...

NEW YORK — Part of a high-rise apartment building in New York City collapsed Wednesday morning, leaving a corner of the building a pile of rubble. The city's fire department said it had no immediate ...

The study of smoke movement and fire dynamics in high-rise buildings is critical for improving fire safety and resilience in modern urban environments. Recent investigations have focussed on the ...

Sometimes there’s a good reason Massachusetts has different rules than the rest of the nation. For example, we pioneered universal health insurance coverage and free public schools. But sometimes ...

The Raleigh Planning Commission on Thursday unanimously approved a rezoning request that would allow for a new, 30-story building and hundreds of new housing units in downtown Raleigh. Project ...

The famous observation decks of 20th-century buildings—the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the World Trade Center—were low-tech but thrilling open-air platforms ringed by coin-operated ...

Researchers in Canada have proposed using gravity-based energy storage in high-rise buildings, in combination with photovoltaic facades, small wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries. Their modeling ...

An explosion at a New York City apartment building blew off a floor-to-roof chunk of the high-rise – terrifying residents in the Bronx and fueling frustration and outrage as to how this could have ...