What type of construction? You may be surprised. An important feature of a pre-incident plan is the classification of building construction. Classifying the type of building should be simple, quick ...

Because a Type IV building is more robust and thus more fire resistive — strategically — than a leaner Type III building, they are listed out of order numerically. The August 2009 installment ...

Several years ago, while still a graduate student in the Environmental Design department at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology in Egypt, Sahar Salah published a research paper on Building ...

If you think of the primary building materials that are used in the construction of your home, what types come to mind? You’d probably agree that materials such as wood, steel, and concrete make up a ...

Akestra 110, the new transparent plastic produced by Mitsubishi Gas Chemicals in Japan and brought to Europe by Perstorp (Malmo, Sweden), has received top-rated classification for fire safety in ...