In this video, learn how to create an Indoor Outdoor Tabletop Firepit using concrete. Materials required for the project ...

Our ancestors used to gather around fire as much as for warmth and sustenance as for storytelling and kinship. There’s an intrinsic comfort—something ancient and ritualistic—that draws us to flames, ...

Self-compacting high-performance concrete (SCHPC) has till now suffered from one weakness – when exposed to fire it flakes and splits, which reduces its loadbearing capacity. Empa scientists have now ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...