There’s no such thing as a fire-proof house, but certain design choices can help protect a home during a wildfire. As the Santa Monica-based architect Abeer Sweis watched the Palisades Fire lay waste ...

With wildfires increasing year after year, more homeowners are thinking about the future of their houses — and whether they have a future at all as the climate rapidly changes.

Not regular concrete. This is 12,000 psi concrete very dense, which is what makes it totally fireproof," he said. The prototype is on display in Sacramento, California. "We are really calling SAM ...

My home is an entirely concrete structure with a dirt-over ... insurers in California are mandated to consider a home’s fire-resistant elements. It seems you get credit for screening vents ...

Dr. Rami Hawileh's research, conducted over ten years at the AUS Structures and Construction Materials Lab, focuses on creating concrete with non-metallic reinforcements and eco-friendly materials ...

The Los Angeles wildfires recently showed people around the world that celebrity or not, no one is safe from fire.