“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...

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...