Home hardening means using fire-resistant building materials and landscaping to protect buildings from heat, flames and a blast of embers during a firestorm. Here’s a brief overview of what that ...

concrete is back on the menu. It’s going to be curbs, no doubt the mountable kind that PBOT uses elsewhere, so maybe more of an appetizer than the main course folks generally want. He says the bureau ...

Modern concrete, based on a material known as Portland cement, ... making the concrete harden much faster. The technique also generated some hot spots of almost 400 degrees, ...