Jim Mickowski, an engineer with PSJ Engineering, has more than 25 years of experience in the design and installation of fire suppression systems. His experience ranges from working on stadiums, museums and office buildings to high-security, high-risk areas in correctional facilities and nuclear facilities where there is “no access allowed.”
As one of Seattle’s largest school campuses, Chief Sealth and its co-located facility Denny International Middle School are undergoing a complete renovation and rebuild.
Inmates will abuse any building component within reach. So how do you design a system to detect and protect while keeping it safe, too?
Looking for product information, training, or design tools for your emergency communications or mass notification system (MNS) project? The new System Sensor ECS landing page collects all this information and more on a single page.
Many of us can relate to the logic that there’s no sense reinventing the wheel: Why start fire and life safety design from scratch when there are already so many tried-and-true procedures and examples from which to borrow?
The New Mexico Construction Industries Division (CID) has adopted the 2009 International Residential Code (IRC) without amendments to the CO and smoke detection sections.
The System Sensor 5600 Series of mechanical heat detectors come in a variety of configurations to meet your application needs.
Cut costs, speed installation, and improve aesthetics on emergency communications applications that require fire and emergency warnings by combining the functions of two to three devices on a single mounting plate and back box.
A conventional, 2-wire device, the 5151 is a combination fixed and rate-of-rise thermal detector designed to provide open-area protection with 50-foot spacing capability as approved by UL 521.