As authorities investigate Tai Po blaze, experts call for better laws and regulations governing building maintenance work and fire safety.

READING, Pa. – The scaffolding around the Pagoda atop Mount Penn is coming down. Renovations on the landmark are wrapping up. Crews have been working for the past few months on a multimillion dollar ...

Scaffolding that has surrounded the Pagoda during the $5.3 million renovation of the city’s landmark has been removed. Workers on Thursday were taking down the remaining sections as work on the ...

The Parthenon, photographed here on October 17, is free from scaffolding for the first time in decades. Milos Bicanski / Getty Images Every year, millions of tourists visit the Parthenon, the hilltop ...

ATHENS – Walking along the broad pedestrian street that runs along the base of Athens’ famed Acropolis Hill, visitors can now enjoy something not seen in decades: an unobstructed, scaffolding-free ...

The city has enacted new laws to reduce the length of time for scaffolding and sidewalk shed permits. But you can take more direct action. By Jill Terreri Ramos Q: We live in a building in Manhattan ...

The drumbeat about New York's high cost of living gets loudest over the need for more housing, increasing wages or lowering taxes. It rarely touches on making a change to a 140-year-old state law. New ...

A straightforward demolition screen scaffold setup for a new client in Rickmansworth. The team works efficiently on this short-term project, ensuring protection for the occupied building next door.

Every year, in the middle of summer, hundreds of Hong Kong construction workers and engineers walk up some 200 steps to Ching Lin Terrace in the seaside neighborhood of Kennedy Town. There, in one of ...

As any homeowner can tell you, the cost of construction is high and getting higher. The cost of building materials, lumber, concrete, and steel have spiked in recent years. Housing costs across the ...