Coral Morgan, Product Manager – Fire Protection at ROCKWOOL UK, discusses how non-combustible insulation can help to balance design demands and deliver a seamless structural steel fire protection ...

Because the fire protection installer is not in control of any off-site or previous preparation of steelwork, before work begins, the client and the main contractor and/or structural engineer should ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

March 29, 2021 – The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has launched free NFPA 1700, Guide for Structural Fire Fighting online training for firefighters to learn safer and more effective ways ...