One of the things that COVID-19 has made me realize is that the world is a small place. At the time this article was written, COVID 19 has already affected 1,000,168 persons in 204 countries...

In the past few years, PLC Fire Safety Solutions have been involved in numerous fire and life safety studies for historical structures in Atlantic Canada. Most of these historical buildings are...

“Escape Rooms” are businesses where a group of friends or co-workers pay a fee to be locked in a room or set of rooms, find clues and solve puzzles cooperatively to escape. Escape rooms have become...

During the installation process, sprinklers are required to be inspected and pressure-tested as part of the commissioning phase. Subsequently, annual inspections and periodic testing, sometimes...

When I first started learning about sprinkler design, I was using the then current 1972 edition of National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 13 . That was the first version of the standard that had...

Most building and fire codes contain prescriptive requirements that are intended to serve as the minimum measures that must be met to provide an acceptable level of safety. Frequently, code users...

Following up on the basic introduction to the theory behind Earned Value Management (EVM) posted earlier, the focus of this blog is to explain how schedule and budget monitoring parameters are...

The concept of Miscellaneous Storage was first introduced in the 1991 edition of NFPA 13, the Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems, but still seems to be widely misunderstood, even...

The development of building codes and tragic events are very closely linked. Building and fire codes have been developed over the last 100 plus years as a result of multiple small fire incidents that...

More than often, project managers find themselves surprised when they find out that their projects are behind schedule or over budget. We ask ourselves how we got to this point without any prior...