This blog post is authored by Anthony Bevan, Senior Design Engineer, Southland Industries. Data center design demands the expertise of a mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection ...

Fire protection methods continue to evolve alongside improvements in alarm systems, detection technology, and suppression ...

Performance-based structural fire design of steel frames can eliminate fire protection on up to half of a building’s floor beams, according to a two-year study of PBSFD. Still, structural engineers ...

While no building is truly fireproof, construction materials and systems can make a building fire safe. Fire-resistive construction gives time to discover a fire, suppress it before it spreads and ...

Using PBSFD, engineers can predict the behavior of a frame in fire, such as vertical displacement of floor beams over time. Graphic courtesy of SEI/ASCE, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (2019) and SAFIR ...

As modern society takes uninterrupted electricity supply for granted, electrical utility providers are increasingly measured by the reliability of the infrastructure used to deliver power to consumers ...

David Pacheco underscores the significance of integrating safety features, like advanced security systems and structure ...

The importance of implementing loss prevention and mitigation techniques that are specifically written for the chemical processing industry Implementing loss prevention and mitigation techniques that ...

Infrastructure comprises the core services that urban areas must provide to ensure access to essential health and well-being standards, such as basic sanitation, energy, roads, transportation, and ...

Considerable progress has been made over the past several decades in the design and regulatory requirements for fire safety, in fire protection technology and in related analytical techniques.

October 14, 2024: GAITHERSBURG, Maryland – The SFPE Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to enhancing the scientific understanding of fire and its interaction with the social, natural, and ...