Coral Morgan, Product Manager – Fire Protection at ROCKWOOL UK, discusses how non-combustible insulation can help to balance design demands and deliver a seamless structural steel fire protection ...

Because the fire protection installer is not in control of any off-site or previous preparation of steelwork, before work begins, the client and the main contractor and/or structural engineer should ...

Laing O’Rourke architectural design discipline leader Amritha Achuthan will speak at our free webinar on best practice approaches in passive fire protection of structural steel Structural steel is a ...

Using PBSFD, engineers can predict the behavior of a frame in fire, such as vertical displacement of floor beams over time. Graphic courtesy of SEI/ASCE, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (2019) and SAFIR ...

communicating how Promat helps to remove the guesswork. If the audience were to see Promat as the “go B2B: Limited Budget - ...

Maximising the value of the fire resistance of steel from the stage of conceptual design to the application of fire protection on site is vital. For most practitioners, the term ‘fire resistance’ ...

Recent tests have resolved a longstanding debate among designers over the amount of fire protection appropriate for a steel floor assembly. Revisions to UL Design No. D982 in the Underwriter ...

Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...