A new engineering guide, “Fire Safety for Very Tall Buildings,” is now available. Topics featured include emergency egress, fire resistance, building envelope, suppression, detection, alarms, and ...

Lithium-ion batteries have been in the news lately because of the fires that have grounded Boeing’s Dreamliner fleet. Potential fire problems with the batteries have long been evident, with millions ...

Andrew Valente presents academic options for those interested in pursuing fire protection engineering as a career. Every day, nine Americans on average perish in fires. But fear of death or injury by ...

UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute (FSRI) today announced that they are expanding their focus to address fire safety more broadly and extending their collaborative model to actively engage fire ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Most people view tunnels as a matter of convenience, a way to get from Point A to Point B with minimum complications — depending on weather and traffic patterns, of course. Negar ...

Construction professionals are being offered new training to address widespread competence gaps in fire safety engineering, ...

Amanda has also contributed extensively to SFPE through her involvement on various committees. From 2014 to 2015, she served on the Nomination Committee and the Research, Tools, and Methods Committee ...

As Senior Fire Safety Engineer, you will be responsible for applying advanced fire engineering principles in the design and assessment of buildings across a diverse estate. This includes the technical ...

For many people, the world changed on 9/11. Among the many new concerns brought about by that tragedy, fire safety has become a front-and-center issue for building owners and managers, local ...

Within a minute, a match placed under a newspaper on a sofa started a fire that soon consumed the living room. Three minutes later, the intense heat and fire blew out a side window. Before five ...