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.
Consulting-Specifying Engineer‘s top 5 articles online for June 19-25 covered improving the workplace, NFPA 99 hospital changes, COVID-19 engineering advice and retail impacts and smoke control systems. Were you out last week? Catch up with a link to each article below.
1. Four lessons to take from working at home to improve the workplace – The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many things for people who worked at home, but there are some valuable lessons to take from this unique experience that can make the work environment a better one.
2. Basics of NFPA 99 changes for hospital design – How engineers should navigate the changes to the 2018 edition of NFPA 99.
3. Ask an expert at Southland: COVID-19 and engineering – Peter Pobjoy at Southland Industries shares details on what engineering changes may lie ahead with COVID-19 issues
4. How is COVID-19 affecting retail, restaurants? – With consumers frequently enjoying delivered meals and shopping for goods online, brick-and-mortar restaurants and retail structures need to be more advanced than ever to compete.
5. 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.
