We’ve all heard the phrase, “You’re on a need-to-know basis.” If someone told you that you were on a “need-to-know basis” to fight fires, you probably wouldn’t take too kindly to that restraint. When ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Jim Jendusa started Hartland-based Jendusa Design & ...

A recent series of fires is causing fire departments to take a new and harder look at lightweight building construction and the risk it poses to firefighters. The scope of the problem is uncertain, ...

Outside view of the house. What will someday be the front door is presently bricked up forming a niche inside. The studio is in the background. Note the re-bar sticking out to add on the second floor ...

Self-storage facilities are a booming business nationwide. Consumer demand for storage units can be found everywhere, from cities and suburbs to rural areas. In April 2006, The New York Times reported ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. EDGEWATER, N.J. (PIX11) — There’s a quote in ...

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Swinburne researchers have turned old, unwanted mattresses into safe and sustainable building insulation materials using fungi. The team grew a common fungus together with shredded mattress foam to ...

Dutch solar PV manufacturer Solarge is deploying a novel lightweight rooftop solution across several commercial buildings in the Netherlands. Instead of glass, the special modules developed by the ...

In a 4-month period during 2007, 54 firefighters lost their lives in the line of duty. Eighteen of those firefighters were killed after becoming lost, caught or trapped in structures. Numbers like ...