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Guide to Steel Fire Protection
The Association for Specialist Fire Protection has published a new edition of its ‘Yellow Book’…

Firestopping and Effective Compartmentation
Design, Installation, Inspection & Maintenance – Now and in the Future Fire resistance rated construction…

A Warning to All – Alerting Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People in an Emergency
Being able to warn everyone of an emergency in or around a building is an…

Latest Progress by Sprinklers and Water Mist in Europe
European codes and standards increasingly recognise sprinklers and water mist. Over the past decade, most…

Stopping Fire in Its Tracks – Part One
You may have heard the word firestopping thrown around the construction industry to describe any…

Clean Agents – The Long Term Solution
A small fire in critical facilities such as data centres, oil and gas facilities, power…

Protection from Cradle to Grave
What needs to be considered in the construction process to ensure adequate passive fire protection…

Advances in Detector Technology Protects Lives & Assets
In any automatic fire detection system, the detectors are the front line in the fight…

Light Refreshment
The growing sophistication of emergency lighting systems means that as well as being a vital…

Oxygen Reduction Fire Prevention
Oxygen-reduction fire prevention is a revolution in fire safety, and the world’s latest technological innovation…

20 Years Later: Halon for Critical Use – is it Critical?
It has been 20 years since developed countries stopped production of Halons as a clean…

Clean Agents in Aviation Fire Protection
For more than three decades, Halon 1301 and Halon 1211 played a key role in…

Firefighting Foam Advancements … Then & Now
It is often said that in order to shape the future you need to look…

Fire Protection of Structural Steelwork
As the use of intumescent coatings to protect structural steelwork from the effects of fire…

Keep to Performance-Based Approach for Safety
Modern design techniques offer advanced structural fire engineering and modelling that can benefit all concerned,…

Credit Where Credit is Due
According to the latest Fire Statistics issued by the U.K. Department for Communities and Local…

Hydrocarbon Fire Protection for Structural Steel
Fire is a terrible and ever present danger for hydrocarbon processing facilities, capable of inflicting…

Inspection, Testing & Maintenance & Building Fire Risk
Most, if not all of the codes and standards governing the installation and maintenance of…
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