Sprinkler system design and construction are paramount to fire suppression and safety in all industrial facilities. They have more significance within the waste, recycling and scrap metal industries ...

Look at the ceiling of any public building and you’ll notice that fire sprinkler systems are everywhere. To the untrained observer, one sprinkler system is probably very much the same as another. On ...

WASHINGTON and DES PLAINES, ILL. — The International Code Council and American Society of Plumbing Engineers have published “Residential Fire Sprinkler Systems: Design, Installation and Code ...

A fire sprinkler system is a simple, but key, active component of a domestic or commercial building’s fire protection system. Installed in ceilings or side walls, the system consists of a water supply ...

The most effective means of combating a fire in a residential occupancy is a properly designed, installed, and maintained fire sprinkler system. These systems use automatic fire sprinklers that ...

LANSDALE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2006--Tyco Fire & Building Products, a division of Tyco International Ltd., and a world leader in fire protection technology, today introduced the Quell Fire ...

It’s 3:30 a.m., and you have been dispatched to a report of a multifamily structure fire in your engine company’s first-due response area. Dispatch is reporting a fire has been called in on the fourth ...

The type of sprinkler system (except deluge) typically depends on the environmental conditions in which the system will be used and the nature of the space being protected. Wet-Pipe Sprinkler System ...

Photo: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute seniors Erik Kauntz, Jake Pyzza, and Ryan Clapp designed and built an early prototype of a new "smart" fire suppression system. Between 35 and 40 million fire ...

Responding to an activated fire alarm is a daily occurrence for most fire departments. Many times the fire alarm is a false alarm, but what happens to our responses when then alarm is based on a ...