Fire safety design is a multidisciplinary field that seeks to minimise risk and ensure structural integrity during fire events by merging advanced material science, computational modelling, and robust ...

Defending against fire is an essential part of safer school design. It is also a code requirement in many commercial occupancies—from retail and multifamily buildings to offices and warehouses—and for ...

The way in which a fire evolves largely depends on the materials that constitute the building, as well as how it is designed. For this reason, there exist a number of fire safety requirements in ...

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was one of the deadliest fires in U.S. history. The fire resulted in the deaths of ...

New York state officials have approved a second variance for a controversial Amazon warehouse project in Orange County, allowing the developer to scale back standard fire code requirements — a ...

October 5 - 11 is Fire Prevention Week! Read the new edition of Shop Talk (pdf) to learn more about lithium ion battery safety. At William & Mary, fire safety is practiced to reduce the destruction ...