The recent LA fires drove home how dangerous wildfires can be when they encroach on urban areas. So-called 'wildland-urban interface' fires are on the rise. However, building codes and standards have ...

Fire safety used to sit somewhere near the edge of architectural thinking. It was addressed, documented, approved, and then quietly filed away while design decisions moved on. That approach no longer ...

Power utilities are protecting adjacent assets from transformer fires by installing fire barriers based on separation distances specified in industry standards. Catastrophic transformer failure is the ...