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Best practices for designing fire, life safety in government buildings
Learn how to specify fire and life safety systems for government and military buildings
Top 5 Consulting-Specifying Engineer articles: June 26 to July 2, 2020
Read the best articles from the past week. NFPA 99 strategies, improve chiller plant performance, healthy buildings, chilled water plants and improving the workplace.
Consulting-Specifying Engineer most-viewed articles, June 2020
Read the best articles in June 2020 including: 40 Under 40 winners, COVID-19 questions and advice, smoke control systems, air- versus water-cooled chilled water plants and more.
How to maintain hospital functionality during construction
Referring to NFPA 99 helps engineers minimize impacts in hospital and health care projects. Replacing, extending or removing existing systems will result in outages; here are tips on how to avoid problems
Top 5 Consulting-Specifying Engineer articles: June 19-25, 2020
Read the best articles from the past week. Improving the workplace, NFPA 99 hospital changes, COVID-19 engineering advice and retail impacts and smoke control systems.
How is COVID-19 affecting retail, restaurants? Learn about fire, life safety
With consumers frequently enjoying delivered meals and shopping for goods online, brick-and-mortar restaurants and retail structures need to maintain fire and life safety standards
Top 5 Consulting-Specifying Engineer articles: May 22-28, 2020
Read the best articles from the past week. NFPA 13-2019 revisions, 40 Under 40 winners, fire and life safety systems, public health laboratory safety and COVID-19 impacts.
Using a hybrid design approach to stairwell pressurization
While the design process for a stairwell pressurization system should account for many building specific variables and is anything but simple, the system used to achieve the performance criteria doesn’t have to be complicated
Warehouse, manufacturing facilities go high-tech: Fire and life safety
Warehouse, manufacturing and logistics buildings are more than simple boxy structures used to make products and store them before they move onto their next destination. Fire and life safety systems can be as complex and advanced as any other building
Three tips for legacy hospital smoke control systems
There are three considerations for working with existing smoke control systems in hospitals