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 ...

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 ...

A few extra coats of ‘paint’ could be all that the steel in a building needs to prevent itself from buckling and failing in a fire, suggests new research. A few extra coats of 'paint' could be all ...

CLEVELAND, OHIO – www.mbma.com: The Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) announces the release of the 2010 Fire Resistance Design Guide for Metal Building Systems. The guide provides ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS, April 11, 2017 - LVC recently acquired a successful division of Champion Steel - its fire protection division. The sale was completed on March 24, 2017. Champion opened this division in ...

Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...

The importance of implementing loss prevention and mitigation techniques that are specifically written for the chemical processing industry Implementing loss prevention and mitigation techniques that ...