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United States can learn from worldwide fire engineering expertise
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology makes 30 recommendations to improve the safety of tall buildings in its report on the collapse of the …
New forum to address practical fire safety issues
The Structural Fire Safety Forum, a new body set up in a joint initiative by the Steel Construction Institute and the Association for Specialist Fire …
Steel in Fire: the latest news
The performance of steel in fire has been proven through comprehensive tests worldwide. In the first of a series of fire engineering articles John Dowling of …
Better predictions for cellular beams
Designers using the old Yellow Book guidelines may have been led to be more conservative than needed. SCI’s Manager for Fire Engineering, Gerald Newman, …
Experimental behaviour of a steel structure under natural fire
A full scale European collaborative test has shown that the fire performance of a steel building was better than that predicted by calculations or design …
