The most comprehensive study yet on the destruction of the World Trade Center concludes that columns robbed of fireproofing failed first--not floor trusses--when the twin 110-story towers collapsed ...

GAITHERSBURG — Researchers probing why so many people died in the World Trade Center towers are busy examining a variety of steel that was used in the buildings and rescued from New York landfills ...

NEW YORK, May 8 (UPI) -- Federal investigators examining the World Trade Center collapse said Wednesday only 30 of the 110-story twin towers had fireproofing material upgraded from one-half inch to 1 ...

In a high-temperature blaze, how well does a fireproofing material shield a building’s important steel structures from heat? Answering this question has been surprisingly difficult, but it is ...

When the Woolworth Building was constructed in 1910, owner Frank Woolworth and architect Cass Gilbert wanted to make the structure fireproof. With the recent tragedy of Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and ...

On the 29th, KCC announced that it has signed a joint research and development agreement on fireproofing methods with Hyundai Steel, Hyundai Engineering, and the Korean Steel Structure Society to ...

Researchers have developed a technique for measuring a key thermal property of fire-resistive materials at high temperatures. The measurement technique has already been adopted commercially and ...