The Performance-based Fire and Gas Systems Engineering Handbook; co-authored by Austin M. Bryan, Elizabeth Smith, and Kevin J. Mitchell (all senior staff members at Kenexis Consulting Corporation); ...

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 ...

Performance-based structural fire design of steel frames can eliminate fire protection on up to half of a building’s floor beams, according to a two-year study of PBSFD. Still, structural engineers ...

Gaithersburg, MD – The Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), the world’s leading professional society for fire protection and fire safety engineering, invites fire protection engineering ...

Today, in educational facility management, the administrators of a growing number of non-standard buildings like auditoriums, arenas, stadiums and structures with atria or large open spaces are ...

You may have heard the term, but what is Fire Protection Engineering? What does a Fire Protection Engineer do? Fire Protection Engineering as defined by the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) ...

The Performance-based Fire and Gas Systems Engineering Handbook; co-authored by Austin M. Bryan, Elizabeth Smith, and Kevin J. Mitchell (all senior staff members at Kenexis Consulting Corporation); ...