Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral in rocks and stone that was frequently found in floor tiles, insulation, and paint between the 1940s and 1970s. Lung cancer and other health risks ...

Once a year, primary school headteacher Roger Tweed used to take his board of governors on a tour of asbestos hot spots ... and the ceiling in the cloakroom had pipes with lagging on them.

Low levels of asbestos are naturally present in the air, water and soil, which usually doesn’t cause people to become ill. However, regular exposure to asbestos – in the workplace, for example ...

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Now the hard — and expensive — part begins. That was the message from the construction team updating the School Building ...

Let us know! Philadelphia and Wilmington, along with other United States cities, shared information this week about the location of lead pipes across their neighborhoods. The lead pipe inventories are ...

While these may be due to age or improper installation, Saltzman finds soil and drainage issues are often to blame ... Major plumbing problems, like broken sewer drains or clogged pipes, can cost ...

The US has announced a ban on the only form of asbestos currently used or imported into the US, decades after most developed nations began phasing out the cancer-causing raw material. The ...

“Asbestos was used widely in the construction of schools and can be found in various locations including: walls and ceilings, floor tiles, air cabinet heaters, pipe lagging, cement ...

Asbestos has been banned for decades in Europe but its effects are still with us. Cleaning up the carcinogenic fibre from our ageing buildings is a colossal task and it is still being produced and ...

The town will soon begin accepting bids to demolish the nearly 100-year-old schoolhouse, but hundreds of thousands of dollars must first be spent to remove oil and asbestos from the building.

Hundreds of thousands could die from asbestos exposure in UK schools, a worrying new report has alleged. The Joint Union Asbestos Committee (JUAC) report predicts mesothelioma deaths will continue ...