PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
Resources are always in the works around here. Here's what's currently in the works for the near future:
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Floor-Mounted Obstruction Calculator
While it doesn't come up all that often, floor-mounted items can create obstructions for sprinklers just as anything hanging from a ceiling. This calculator is a quick-assessment tool similar to the popular Sprinkler Obstruction Calculator. Access: Free to Everyone / Downloadable for Toolkit Members Coming: Spring 2019 |
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The MeyerFire Handbook, 2019 Edition
This book of visual references, frequently asked questions and flow charts is the fire suppression designer/engineer's go-to book of references. It's not a textbook, but rather a well-organized reference guide to support quality design, review & inspection at the pace you need to operate. If you enjoy the visual aspects of the weekly blog posts here, you'll love this highly-visual reference guide. Coming: Fall 2019 Have an idea you'd like us to make happen? Send it below - |
EVENTS
March
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25
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By SFPE | During construction, all buildings are more vulnerable to a fire than a completed building. Construction fires are hard to control due to the lack of fire protection, detection systems, large quantities of combustible materials on site, and lack of compartmentation. The presentation will review the high hazard activities/risks for structures under construction, renovation or demolition, and recent loss trends. These include hot work, temporary heating, roofing work, trash removal, cooking equipment, heating equipment, arson, etc. Prevention and mitigation strategies will be presented for these high-risk activities/exposures. Changes to NFPA 241 (2019) Standard for Safeguarding Construction, Alteration, and Demolition Operations will be discussed. | Free Webinar for Members, $29 for Non-member
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April
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2
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By NFPA | This webinar series will present multiple electrical research topics facilitated by the Fire Protection Research Foundation. First presentation will summarize the parameters that affect the thermal protection of concrete for electrical wiring. Second presentation will summarize the data landscape for residential electrical systems and related fire incidents, identifying key gaps and challenges in the data and data analytics that is preventing the residential electrical fire problem and the impact of the NEC’s regulatory changes regarding AFCI’s from being precisely defined. The third presentation will provide an overview of the current challenges with the use of Power over the Ethernet (PoE). | Free
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29
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By SFPE| Several recent fireground line of duty deaths have highlighted the importance for firefighters to understand the ventilation-limited fire dynamics that they may encounter. This need is reflected 2013 edition of NFPA 1403: Standard on Live Fire Training, which provides guidelines for conducting ventilation-limited fire training. This presentation examines the ability of various live fire training facilities to achieve ventilation-limited fire conditions. | Free Webinar for Members, $29 for Non-member
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May
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13
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By SFPE | In 2017, wildland and wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires burned around 10,000 structures in California. This presentation will provide an overview of California’s October 2017 fires and discuss contributing factors such as land use/development, fuels, weather, and topography. A methodology to map areas where similarly damaging fires may occur in the future using Monte Carlo Simulation will be reviewed. This methodology uses high-resolution numerical weather prediction and wildland fire modeling to simulate the spread of millions of hypothetical fires under historical wind/weather conditions and quantify impacts to structures. Very good correlation between areas identified as high risk and historical occurrence of damaging fires is observed, indicating that the methodology is capable of identifying areas where damaging fires may occur in the future. | Free Webinar for Members, $29 for Non-member
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