Suppression Systems
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.
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
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
Three tips for legacy hospital smoke control systems
There are three considerations for working with existing smoke control systems in hospitals
Best practices for designing smoke control systems
By incorporating NFPA 92 with best practices, fire protection engineers can successfully design smoke control systems for buildings
Case study: Super-tall building smoke control system
The Wilshire Grand Center project includes best practices in smoke control
2020 40 Under 40: Karen Schulte, PE, CPD, LEED AP BD+C, 37
Mechanical Project Engineer, Mueller Associates, Linthicum, Md.; Bachelor of Architectural Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
Changing airport firefighting foam suppression systems
If aqueous film-forming foam is not good for the environment or our health, why is it still in use?
Data centers achieve a new level of high-tech: Fire and life safety
Designing solutions for data center clients — whether hyperscale or colocation facilities — requires advanced engineering knowledge