With structural steel used in around 70 per cent of multistorey buildings, understanding how to passively protect this element in the case of fire is hugely important. So said Geoff Wilkinson, who ...

Revisions to UL Design No. D982 in the UL Fire Resistance Directory, based on recent fire tests, have heated up long-standing differences between structural-steel interests and fire-protection ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...