Lighting a fire for fire-protection engineering: performance codes are coming. Are you ready for...

The drive to reduce costs while increasing performance impacts all sectors of the buildings industry. Despite its complex and mission-critical nature, fire and smoke protection is no exception.

The traditional approach to fire safety is based on learning from building rims. When there is a major fire, information from the investigation finds its way into codes. This process is imperfect for a number of reasons. Among them is that, often, fire scenes have been doused with water and much of the burned materials have been hauled away as trash by the time investigators arri