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 ...

As the Santa Monica-based architect Abeer Sweis watched the Palisades Fire lay waste to large portions of the Pacific Palisades, she found herself thinking back on her own childhood home in the ...

David Steiner's Malibu beach house standing unburned amid destruction has become an iconic image of the Palisades fire. (Josh Edelson / AFP/Getty Images) To the editor: So, David Steiner's concrete ...

Sheffield University researchers have demonstrated a new way of protecting concrete from fire damage using materials recycled from old tyres. Image: Pixabay The team used fibres extracted from the ...

When fire breaks out in a tunnel the ensuing heat has little possibility of escaping. Temperatures rise rapidly to over 1000 degrees Celsius. The heat that develops causes the concrete to spall ...

Jan. 9—The cause of the fire at Quandel Concrete on Jan. 3 in Cass Twp. has been ruled accidental. Trooper John F. Burns, a state police fire marshal, said Monday that he and trooper Joseph Hall made ...

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 ...