The mass of shanties on the sixth floor of a storied landmark in the heart of the Bengal capital is no Tower of David, the skyscraper that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gave slum-dwellers, but it is home to ...

Asbestos removal is a topic that every homeowner in Sydney should be aware of, especially if you live in an older home.

A 55-year-old Denver-area contractor was recently sentenced to a decade behind bars after he hired a worker to do demolition ...

As the godown was of asbestos sheet roofing, the complete structure collapsed. The exact cause of the fire is yet to be ...

TOWANDA — Sixteen years ago, Bill “Chili” Roof succeeded Bill Sheets as the fire chief of the Towanda Fire Department. Roof stepped down as chief at the turn of the new year, and Sheets is now ...

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As The Strategist’s resident bedding expert, I’ve slept on a lot of different bedding to know that swapping in cooling sheets — whether they’re made of a tighter-weave fabric like percale ...

Anyone whose home was built or renovated between 1950 and 1999 has been issued a warning over a possible hidden danger lurking in their property. According to property experts, asbestos was widely ...

Asbestos fibres may cause serious lung diseases including asbestosis and cancer. Smoking also increases the risk of developing illness from asbestos exposure.

The damage was some of the worst he had seen from a tornado, Henwood added. "Roofs off houses, trees into houses, trees snapped like twigs, power poles, the concrete power poles all snapped and broken ...

Pinner Library. Pinner Library has been forced to close temporarily after asbestos was found in the roof panels. Image Credit: Google Maps. A library in Harrow has been forced to close temporarily ...

One of London’s largest and oldest thatched roofs, on a 15th-century Tithe Barn, is currently being removed and replaced with fresh thatching as part of a large restoration project. Upminster tithe ...