YARMOUTH, Maine—Come this fall, you won't have to flip through the several hundred pages of NFPA 72, the National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, to find documentation requirements. Now, in the new ...

The annual NFPA Conference and ExpO in Chicago I attended in June consisted of several pay-per-view seminars and committee meetings. The exposition wasn’t as well attended as past shows, which was ...

Greg Kessinger is SD&I’s fire alarm and codes expert and a regular contributor. Email him your fire & life safety questions at [email protected]. A new year brings with it an opportunity for a fresh ...

During residential inspections, my biggest challenge is getting electricians and contractors to accept that the “old” way of installing smoke alarms and carbon monoxide (CO) detectors is no longer ...

BOULDER, Colo., July 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Asurio, Inc. (www.asurio.com), developers of the BirdDog Life Safety Inspection & Data Collection System, today announced that Asurio General Manager ...

Smoke detection in data centers is critical, not only for life safety reasons, but also to reduce fire-related business interruption and property damage. Data centers are unique environments, which ...

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) just updated its code on fire and CO detection alarms for sleeping locations. Campuses in jurisdictions that have ...

When designing and installing voice evacuation and mass notification systems, intelligibility is required to be achieved. NFPA 72, National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code requires a 0.70 Speech ...

Previously, we have discussed a number of changes that have been made to the 2013 edition of NFPA 72, The National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code. While that discourse briefly dipped into the new ...

The global fire detection and alarm market seems to be dividing into two spheres of influence: UL/ANSI equipment installed to NFPA 72 and EN54/ISO 7240 products installed to country standards. But as ...