While it doesn't burn in the conventional sense, concrete chips and flakes when exposed to fire, for the same reasons that firewood crackles. Water trapped inside the material vaporizes when subjected ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Steiner's Malibu beach house standing unburned amid destruction has become an iconic image of the Palisades fire. (Josh ...

A new way of protecting concrete from fire damage using materials recycled from old tires has been successfully tested. A new way of protecting concrete from fire damage using materials recycled from ...

Self-compacting high-performance concrete has till now suffered from one weakness: when exposed to fire it flakes and splits, which reduces its loadbearing capacity. Scientists in Switzerland have now ...

As rebuilding from the Palisades and Eaton fires gets under way, some homeowners are choosing to build differently. Instead of the usual wood framing, they’re working with a material typically ...

Furnace tests were conducted on large-scale loaded and restrained reinforced concrete tunnel slabs to evaluate the level of fire damage. Extreme fire events in tunnels may have catastrophic ...

When a building suffers fire damage, the visible destruction, including charred framing, collapsed roofs and blackened interiors, often leads owners and contractors to assume a total loss. Yet, in ...

Neighbors in east Altadena awoke Monday, March 31 to the sound of dump trucks hauling concrete, metal and tree limbs from burned out properties to a new processing facility within Los Angeles County’s ...

To the editor: So, David Steiner’s concrete home is the sole survivor in a destroyed Malibu neighborhood. I find that predictable, but apparently insurance companies don’t. My home is an entirely ...