When a fire breaks out in a high-rise building, conventional wisdom is that stairwells are the only way out. Lifts are verboten in such scenarios, while sheer height typically prevents any other ...

High-voltage pulse power generation systems represent a pivotal technology in modern engineering, enabling the delivery of rapid, high-energy pulses that are essential across a spectrum of ...

Can you ride out a Category 5 hurricane on the 50th floor? Would you want to? You might not make it through the storm alive, experts say. Even if you do, your building won’t likely be the same when ...

New luxury apartment complexes are replacing older, more affordable housing in West Lafayette. A city councilman raised concerns about overbuilding for an unsustainable student population growth at ...

Radio signal dead zones can create a potentially dangerous situation for emergency responders, yet dozens of high-rises in Fort Lauderdale have them, city officials say. That means police and ...

Sometimes there’s a good reason Massachusetts has different rules than the rest of the nation. For example, we pioneered universal health insurance coverage and free public schools. But sometimes ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Ann Arbor’s skyline has two notable additions with new high-rises completed in August, including the tallest building the city has seen in over half a century. And several more big ...

A wide urban road in Shenzhen, China shows how city planning adapts to areas surrounded by high-rise buildings. By providing ...