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Strategies for Fire Protection: Safer College CampusesTHURSDAY, JAN 03, 2019College campuses and dormitories are some of the most high-traffic and high-risk spaces that architects design. Many buildings on campus are accessible (and busy) around the clock, and college students…
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Overcoming Egress Challenges in Your Building DesignWEDNESDAY, JAN 02, 2019When you design a building you want it to be beautiful - but you also want it to be safe. Trends in building design make it necessary for architects to…
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How to Incorporate Fire Protection Into Your Flexible DesignTUESDAY, OCT 09, 2018Inspired partly by the desire to protect our environment and partly by the need to maximize a building’s life cycle, architects, designers and building owners alike are pushing the envelope…
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Smoke and Fire Safety Solutions for ElevatorsTUESDAY, SEP 25, 2018During a fire, an elevator shaft acts just like a chimney, funneling smoke upward to higher floors. Even if the fire itself is contained, the resulting smoke puts the building’s…
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Strategies for Fire Prevention in the WorkplaceMONDAY, JUL 23, 2018Although they occur every year, workplace and office fires have reduced in number over the last few decades. This is greatly in part to advances in technology, more effective fire…