Homeowners may be surprised to find how many building materials used on houses built before 1975 can contain asbestos. Asbestos is most frequently found wrapped around furnaces/boilers and heating ...

Laughlin Hall as part of ongoing summer renovations. The dorm is vacant, and air quality tests have confirmed levels remain ...

Q: From time to time, your column addresses the subject of asbestos, and you sometimes refer to building materials as “possibly containing asbestos.” As a home inspector, I've always tried to ...

Materials containing asbestos have been located in 10 residence halls on UNC's campus, including Hinton James, Morrison and Spencer — potentially exposing more than 2,700 students in the past year.

A tax on building materials is being proposed as a way to fund the removal of asbestos from millions of homes across Australia. An estimated one in three houses across the country contain asbestos ...

Asbestos found in Harvard building materials recently forced at least one undergraduate to temporarily relocate out of his room in Winthrop House, although administrators say current levels of the ...

Frequently Asked Questions. Question: What is asbestos? Answer: Asbestos is a fibrous material used in a variety of building materials and industrial products. Question: Where might I encounter ...

More building materials destined for the Queensland Government's new Executive Building in Brisbane have tested positive for asbestos. Manufacturing company Yuanda Australia imported the materials ...

A bonfire on a site that contains asbestos was set alight despite warnings over the dangers of doing so. Northern Ireland's ...

CRL Energy now offers an available-to-all IANZ-accredited rapid service to analyse building materials for asbestos. Following the Christchurch and Canterbury earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 testing ...