Building more high-rise apartments could help alleviate the Las Vegas Valley’s housing crunch, but don’t expect a boom in taller residential buildings anytime soon, experts say. A number of factors ...

States and cities are loosening building code requirements in an effort to lower construction costs and boost affordable housing. Some of these changes include allowing low-rise apartment buildings ...

Fire escalation is often accelerated in high-rise buildings when façade materials, window failure, vertical architectural pathways and environmental factors (for example, wind, dry air and heat) ...