Just about everyone has had an experience with a portable classroom — a one-story, railroad-car-like box on stilts or cinder blocks. You enter via a small ramp with painted 2-by-4 railings that leads ...

Fatal collapses ignited interest in the safety of public-occupancy temporary structures, such as stages and tents, which have long been permitted by the fire department, not the building official. The ...

Fatal collapse of the stage at the Indiana State Fair in 2011 ignited interest in the safety of public-occupancy outdoor-event structures, which in many cases are not engineered to resist ...

Officials broke ground on a portable building for shops and a community center on the St. Elizabeths campus in Ward 8 on Monday — designed by an architect behind the National Museum of African ...