American fire compartmentation: building
American fire compartmentation and building safety: tragic New York City fire underlines how it remains a potent threat, despite advances in building design and construction and strict building regulations
Retail Building Safety, Shopping Center Buildings
Retail building safety, shopping centre architecture – article by Jane Embury – retail safety, shopping center buildings: architectural article, fire design
Fire Risk in High Rise Buildings News
Article about fire safety in the supertall buildings now being built. “The skyscraper is just about to get a whole lot bigger, with a whole lot more of them around. While the Shard is the tallest building in Europe, it will be dwarfed by the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – the first habitable building to pass the one kilometre mark.”
Fire Safety in Stadiums, Fire-Rated Systems
A leading UK steel glazing company has supplied fire-rated systems to several Olympic, FIFA and other major stadiums. Wrightstyle’s technical director Lee Coates reports on fire safety.
Fire Dynamics & Human Behaviour: Systems
Building safety is largely determined by taking a multi-disciplinary approach to assessing hazards – from power failure to cyber attack, from civil disorder to fire and explosive detonation – and arriving at risk assessments that illuminate how that building should be designed and built. However, psychology is also a potent element
Fire Safety Design: Architecture + Engineering
Designers (architects included) consider every variable associated with the form & function of a building – aesthetics, functionality, cost, environmental sustainability, structural integrity, serviceability and code compliance among a plethora of other variables
London Fire Brigade HQ Building – Headquarters
London Fire Brigade HQ, Architect, Albert Embankment Building, Residential Development London Fire Brigade Headquarters : Extension Mixed-use Architecture on the Albert Embankment – design by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands 23 Sep 2008 London Fire Brigade Headquarters Extension Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands to … Continued
