Building more high-rise apartments could help alleviate the Las Vegas Valley’s housing crunch, but don’t expect a boom in taller residential buildings anytime soon, experts say. A number of factors ...

Officials also discuss creating a dedicated mechanism to identify commercially used residential buildings, enforce compliance ...

Venezuela and Japan are both hit by strong quakes, but Venezuela faces higher risks due to weaker building standards.

On Friday afternoon a small plane slammed into the 109-story CITIC Tower that dominates Beijing’s skyline, killing the pilot ...

There is a phrase regularly repeated and like clockwork. We hear it during the month of March and the tragedy of its timing is not lost on those who observe Fire Prevention Month. The Tagalog phrase ...

Urban planning choices that maximise space often create challenges during emergencies.

Most people know that heat waves can be dangerous. What they may not realize is that the heat indoors can be much worse than ...

As an example, the permit fee per square metre to build new residential in Bradford is set to increase from the current ...

Rapid market change, technological disruption, and economic pressures are causing South African companies to no longer be content with incremental improvements to their core operations. To unlock new ...

Poe’s Tavern in Sullivan’s Island serves up a dining experience that would make the master of macabre himself crack a rare ...

The HST rebate on new Ontario homes helped trigger sales of single-family houses in the Toronto region for the second ...

Here's a list of the ten tallest skyscrapers in the city and some background on each to keep you up to date.