CHAMPAIGN – Cecil Bilbo has been in the fire-sprinkler industry for 20 years, and he says most of the training for the people who design sprinkler systems comes on the job. Bilbo is getting ready to ...

WASHINGTON and DES PLAINES, ILL. — The International Code Council and American Society of Plumbing Engineers have published “Residential Fire Sprinkler Systems: Design, Installation and Code ...

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 ...

McKinney City Council members approved a $420,775 contract with Reed Fire Protection Engineering in December to design a fire sprinkler system for each block.

You have heard the benefits of residential sprinkler systems and this article is intended to give some brief facts about the installation of residential sprinkler ...

A fire sprinkler system is a simple, but key, active component of a domestic or commercial building’s fire protection system. Installed in ceilings or side walls, the system consists of a water supply ...

Look at the ceiling of any public building and you’ll notice that fire sprinkler systems are everywhere. To the untrained observer, one sprinkler system is probably very much the same as another. On ...

Responding to an activated fire alarm is a daily occurrence for most fire departments. Many times the fire alarm is a false alarm, but what happens to our responses when then alarm is based on a ...

It’s 3:30 a.m., and you have been dispatched to a report of a multifamily structure fire in your engine company’s first-due response area. Dispatch is reporting a fire has been called in on the fourth ...

I wouldn’t tear out my existing irrigation system to install Irrigreen, but it’s still worth a look for new homes where water is expensive or its use is restricted (which could be everywhere in the ...

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 ...