The American Fire Sprinkler Association (AFSA) announces the 2010 schedule for both its traditional Beginning Fire Sprinkler System Planning School as well as its new System Layout School for ...

LANSDALE, PA. — Tyco Fire & Building Products said in mid-February that it will offer free residential fire sprinkler training to home builders and developers, groups that have long opposed ...

Students receive two full weeks ofinstruction, 60% of which is study & review of NFPA 13 (2007). The other 40% is preparation offire sprinkler system layout, shop drawings and hydraulic calculations.

Sprinkler system design and construction are paramount to fire suppression and safety in all industrial facilities. They have more significance within the waste, recycling and scrap metal industries ...

The provisions and requirements for fire sprinkler systems within buildings have been mandated within codes and standards since the late 1800s. The inclusion of these systems fit within our core ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...