Building Construction – Fire Engineering

For his new Construction Concerns, Gregory Havel looks at the historic ways towns and cities approached the idea of containing fires.

I have been fighting fires in Maryland for more than 45 years. In December 2014, I retired as fire chief of Montgomery County, and I now serve as f...

The International Code Council (ICC) and Calidad and Sustentabilidad en la Edificacion A.C. (CASEDI) [Building Quality and Sustainability] are plea...

Jason Hoevelmann of Engine House Training shared a tutorial video on firefighting concerns in balloon-frame construction.

For the upcoming ICC final code action hearings in Kansas City, let your voice count by validating fire department members to vote. Find out more a...

The Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs has approved a change to prohibit the construction of tall wood-framed buildings.

Researchers at SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden have initiated a conference and workshop on wind turbine fires to address fire safety issu...

A report from The Record examined fire safety upgrades proposed in the effort to rebuild the Avalon at Edgewater apartment complex, which burned in...

In this week's training bulletin, Tony Carroll looks at lessons learned from the devastating 1978 Waldbaums Supermarket fire in New York City, whi...

In his new Construction Concerns, Gregory Havel takes a look at this fast-growing plant that has been used in construction for centuries in Asia, t...

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