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Fire Safety
Are Multi Family Buildings Safer Today?
- Across the nation multifamily residential buildings are a popular form of housing. Apartments, condominiums...
Brick Industry Association (BIA) Tech Notes
– The properties of fired clay brick and the clay brick masonry made from them were used to establish the recommendations…
Chimney Construction
- A chimney is one of the most vulnerable parts of a structure because it is exposed to weathering on all sides...
Communities
- Firesafe non-combustible construction separating all dwelling units?
Concrete Masonry and Fire Safety ...A Lesson in Apples and Oranges
– The concrete masonry industry has long been a propoent of using non- combustible materials for both…
Disaster Can Strike at Any Moment
– No meteorologist can predict with 100 percent accuracy the severity of a storm…
Don't Get Burned National Cost Comparison Study
- The first component is COMPARTMENTATION with structural walls, floors and ceilings of masonry and concrete products...
Fire Safety with Masonry
– To: Architects, Engineers, Builder Developers/Contractors/Owners/Fire & Building Officials From: Masonry Advisory Council…
Fire Engineering
– Many of today’s new and recently remodeled buildings have some features that make…
Fire Rating for Masonry Walls
– A popular question to the Masonry Advisory Council is “What is the fire rating of my masonry wall?”…
Fire Walls
– A fire wall is a structure whose purpose is keep fire from spreading to adjacent areas…
Guidelines for Energy Effiency Fireplace Design
- The majority of homes built in the United States this century are built with some sort of wood burning fireplace...
Is this risk equation out of balance
– Every week it seems that we are seeing reports and videos of huge fires consuming…
LEEDS: Canada vs. USA
– The design of architectural structures slowly changes in style, type, social acceptance…
LEEDS: Canada vs. USA
– The design of architectural structures slowly changes in style, type, social acceptance…
Masonry and Fire Safety
– In recent years, there has been a rise in fire events from wildland areas to inner cities—including…
Masonry Fire Safety
- ASTM E-119 test...
Masonry Does Not Burn
– For years folks have been saying that MASONRY DOES NOT BURN…
Masonry Doesn't Burn Flyer
- Recently, passive fire protection provisions in new building codes based on the International Code Council's International Building Code (IBC)...
Masonry Doesn't Burn Video
- Which home would you rather live in? Watch our video "Masonry Doesn't Burn" presented by the Masonry Advisory Council...
National Association of State Fire Marshals / Project FAIL-SAFE
– National Association of State Fire Marshals / Project FAIL-SAFE…
NASFM Project FAIL-SAFE Overview
– The project is designed to make people, property, and communities more…
NASFM FAIL-SAFE Finds Sprinkler “Trade-Offs” Lead to Drop in Overall Fire Safety Scores
– (New York, NY – December 13, 2017) Project FAIL-SAFE, the first-of-its-kind…
National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA) Tech Notes
– This index contains a listing of all NCMA TEK Notes with links to each document…
Non-Combustible Concrete Construction
- Where There's Smoke, There's Fire. And, too often, they result in loss of property, injury, and death. Fires in apartments, condominiums...
The 10 Major Items of a Real Masonry Fireplace
– This is not an all inclusive list of all requirements to meet Building Codes, but is a primer on major items to help avoid problems…
The Systems
- Combining the inherent structural capabilities of masonry with precast hollow core slabs generates the most effective...
