A recent study by the journal Nature predicts an increase in the length of the California fire season from 36 days per year up to 58 days or 71 days, depending on moderate and high emission scenarios, ...

Designing a lighter, integrated, fire-safe sidewall cover. R&D company CG Rail performed extensive materials testing and used a simulation-driven design approach to develop an optimized carbon ...

Wildfires always have been a part of our environment. For a variety of reasons, in recent years wildfires have been growing in both frequency and intensity, dramatically increasing the level of ...

RS Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce that an RS pole, protected with an RS Fire Shield made from fibre reinforced polymer (FRP), has survived forest fire conditions in Canada’s Northwest ...

As explained in CW’s 2019 tour article, Holland Composites (Lelystad, Netherlands) has been developing composite solutions in architecture and construction for decades. The company’s first project, ...

Initiatives such as the Shift2Rail European programme are encouraging research into innovative rail product solutions with the aim of doubling the capacity of the European rail system, increasing its ...