Hundreds of years before asbestos became ubiquitous in the construction industry, Byzantine monks used the fibrous material in plaster coatings underlying their wall paintings during the late 1100s, ...

Q: We will be renovating our 1940’s brick house soon and have started taking out the wall linings in the bedroom. We found that the wall linings have fibres and are very heavy.We were told this is ...

Restoration work on a historic building's ceiling has been approved by planners. Moot Hall in Colchester has been closed to the public since early 2023 after structural assessments revealed the ...

The partial collapse of the suspended fibrous plaster ceiling at London’s Apollo Theatre on December 19, 2013, prompted a thorough investigation by Westminster City Council. Acting on behalf of the ...