Codes & Standards: Fire, Life Safety
Top 5 Consulting-Specifying Engineer articles: February 14-20
Read the best articles from the past week. VFDs, NFPA 20 fire pumps, NEC 2017 changes, mergers and acquisitions, and designing circuit interrupters.
Top 5 Consulting-Specifying Engineer articles: February 7-13
Read the best articles from the past week. NEC 2017 changes, NFPA 20 fire pumps, office building design, successful acoustic projects and lighting occupancy sensors.
What’s so special about office buildings? Learn about fire and life safety systems
Office buildings are complex structures containing automated features, energy-saving designs, high-tech equipment and other components as advanced as you’d find in any other state-of-the-art project. Fire protection engineers play a key role
Consulting-Specifying Engineer most-viewed articles, January 2020
Read the best articles in January 2020 including: NEC changes, building automation advances, electrical design for smoke control systems, cooling coil condensate, lighting commissioning and more.
Top 5 Consulting-Specifying Engineer articles: January 24-30
Read the best articles from the past week. Electrical design for smoke control systems, NFPA 20 fire pumps, NEC 2017 changes, NFPA 101 defining egress, and NFPA 110-2019 changes.
Video: State of NFPA 3 Standard for Commissioning of Fire Protection & Life Safety Systems
This session will discuss why NFPA 3 was initially developed and how it evolved into a standard, who is involved in commissioning these systems and some common misconceptions related to commissioning them.
Top 5 Consulting-Specifying Engineer articles: January 17-23
Read the best articles from the past week. NEC 2017 changes, circuit interrupters, lab and research facility design, building automation advances, and egress planning with NFPA 101.
How NFPA 101 defines building egress
NFPA 101: Life Safety Code provides fire protection engineers many resources for designing safe egress, along with several other life safety options
Top 5 Consulting-Specifying Engineer articles: January 10-16
Read the best articles from the past week. Electrical design for smoke control systems, NFPA 101 and egress, 2020 expectations for engineering firms, building automation advances, and NFPA 20.
Fire Dynamics & Building Materials: Designed to burn research
While nobody expects a building to burn, it happens every day; so, what can we, as an industry, do to design these buildings to be safer – even when they burn?