Wildfires that blazed across the West in recent years are the inspiration for Potlatch Corp.’s newest product — fire-resistant cedar decking. The Spokane company is betting that homeowners who spend ...

Wood is an established and versatile construction material, used to build everything from high-rises and airports to apartment buildings. It also, however, is not immune to catching fire. A new ...

On a sweltering day in August, as record-breaking wildfires raged throughout the state, we visited a recently-renovated home tucked into a high fire zone on the Hollywood hillside — a home designed to ...

Fire consumes wood ferociously, in a deadly blaze—but the substances used to treat wood to resist burning can also be noxious and toxic. A professor guided an undergraduate and two high school ...

Engineers have created a new wood that could change what buildings are made of and takes just a few hours to make. Scientists from Chinese institutions developed the new wood that won't catch fire, ...

The building code, as with many products, regulates the use of wood in construction. Two broad categories separate materials: combustible and noncombustible. Codes limit the applications of ...

With fire season approaching, a Bay Area company is giving the public a glimpse of what could make things safer for homeowners in the future. Yuhu Builders in Morgan Hill unveiled the prototype ...

It was just this Wednesday that we heard about a non-toxic flame-retardant solution created by scientists at Texas A and M University. Well, researchers at Switzerland's Empa institute have also come ...