New rules will not only cover buildings undergoing major maintenance but also new blocks under construction, with some ...

Investigations continue into a fire last week at the Wang Fuk Court housing complex, which killed at least 159 people.

The country has more than one million high-rises. Authorities face growing pressure to manage the fire risks as these buildings age.

The Construction Industry Council (CIC) on Friday said the government's new requirements to only install scaffolding nets ...

Officials in Idaho have selected eight projects to share a total of $3.5 million through a new state wildfire resilience ...

Hong Kong officials said on Monday that early findings indicated mesh sheets and Styrofoam panels used on the exterior of the Wang Fuk Court complex were major factors in the rapid spread of the blaze ...

A government-led investigation into the fire at Hong Kong's Wang Fuk Court has found that some mesh netting used to wrap the ...

Chau Sze-kit, president of the Hong Kong Construction Industry Employees General Union, said the wages of scaffolding workers would be driven up when a large quantity of mesh had passed the ...

Around 3,000 power poles across the NSW Central Coast and Hunter regions are being wrapped in a fire-protective mesh in a bid to minimise bushfire damage. The technology has been successfully used in ...

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