Corey Smedley tells why his department adopted the use of floor-below nozzles and smoke curtains for battling fires in unsprinklered high-rise residential buildings.

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 ...

A groundbreaking study by IIT Delhi has identified a critical flaw in how the capital measures its air quality, revealing that pollution levels can be significantly higher at the height of high-rise ...