NFPA 1700, Guide for Structural Fire Fighting, is the first NFPA document connecting fire dynamics research to response strategy, tactics, and best practices for firefighters controlling fires within ...

Laing O’Rourke architectural design discipline leader Amritha Achuthan will speak at our free webinar on best practice approaches in passive fire protection of structural steel Structural steel is a ...

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is conducting a public comment period on the update to ASCE/SEI 29-XX Standard Calculation Methods for Structural Fire Protection. The calculation ...

PPG introduces PPG STEELGUARD® 652 waterborne coating for interior structural steel. PPG Steelguard 652 cellulosic passive fire protection (PFP) coating delivers up to two hours of fire protection.

Much is known about structural steelwork in fire. Rigorous testing, including full-scale building tests in the late 1990s, has led to the development of robust modelling and analytical techniques that ...

Today’s evolving fireground demands a greater understanding of buildings, occupancy risk profiling (ORP) and building anatomy by all companies operating on the fireground. The identification, ...