Today’s evolving fireground demands a greater understanding of buildings, occupancy risk profiling (ORP) and building anatomy by all companies operating on the fireground. The identification, ...

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 ...

Tall buildings represent a pinnacle of modern engineering and architectural ingenuity, embodying the vertical expansion of urban environments and the quest for sustainable densification. The design of ...

The daily activities that comprise a typical company's tour of duty may vary greatly dependent upon the size and complexity of their response area and jurisdiction, the frequency of incident alarms ...

A UB engineering professor has co-authored a report with potential significant impacts on how modern cities may be reconstructed following earthquakes. “Reconstructing Christchurch: A Seismic Shift in ...

In a general sense, the term “curtain wall” refers to an exterior wall that does not support loads other than its own weight. Curtain walls are therefore nonstructural, and serve solely to protect the ...

Exciting and unique buildings increasingly dot the landscape of our urban environments and beautifully fill the pages of our design magazines. Conversely, over the past half century the construction ...

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The structural system can account for as much as 62% of the embodied carbon associated with the production of an office building and 51% of a hospital or a school. Graphic courtesy S. C. Kaethner, J.