Although glass is known for being fully recyclable, the US Environmental Protection Agency states that only about one third of post-consumer glass actually gets recycled. A new glass-based building ...

QUT Engineering Professor Mahen Mahendran has been awarded a quarter-of-a-million dollar grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC), to investigate the fire resistance of common pre-fabricated ...

New research has led the successful development of an organic, non-combustible and lightweight cladding core -- a product that was previously thought to be impossible to create. A University of ...

Fires remain one of the global shipping industry's major challenges to not only the health and safety of employees working onboard container vessels but also to the security of its cargo. The industry ...