Loading ...With all the stories of carbon monoxide (CO) tragedies, your customers are likely becoming more aware of the dangers of CO. Likewise, the numerous stories of tragedies averted by CO detection have proven that CO detectors save lives. As a result, many of your customers are probably already interested in obtaining CO detection.
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Fire Protection Specialists Lend Consulting, Inspection Expertise
Keith S. Frangiamore is vice president of operations at Fire Safety Consultants, Inc. (FSCI), Elgin, Ill., and a certified fire protection specialist. FSCI, one of the largest private fire protection plan review service companies in the United States, provides review services for many U.S. municipalities and fire departments, as well as for private companies throughout the world. FSCI’s project list includes soccer stadiums, hospitals, casinos and data storage warehouses.
Providing Solutions vs. Meeting Code
Often people say they want the best, but their spending demonstrates that “adequate” is good enough. We talk to system designers who recommend solutions for their customers that would provide better fire and life safety protection than what code requires. But they ultimately end up providing the bare minimum protection required at the customer’s request.
The [...]
System Sensor Expands Training Opportunities
As 2009 closes out and we enter 2010, System Sensor is ramping up its training options through multiple channels to meet the growing demand for useful and easily accessible fire and life safety training. Specifically, System Sensor is focused on expanding and improving training options through three key access points: Webinars, Online Training and Seminars.
Editorial: An Additional Layer of Protection
System Sensor realized several years ago a growing need to expand its product portfolio to provide its customers with protection against the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning, the leading cause of accidental poisoning death in America. Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, deadly gas produced by burning any kind of fossil fuel.
System Sensor found that [...]
Factors to Address in Fire- and Life-Safety Design
Robert E. Solomon, P.E., National Fire Protection Association, tells how identifying building use, occupancy and other factors impacts planning for an appropriate system.
A comprehensive fire- and life-safety design requires a cohesive blend of alarm/detection capabilities, an appropriate suppression system and a number of other building construction features that depend on occupancy, type of facility and [...]
Continuous Product Development
Whether you’re installing a fire- and life-safety system to protect occupants of a school or nursing home, or to avoid business interruption, you need the right technology for the job.
As you know, the basic smoke detector frequently used in commercial buildings is not always the answer to protect a warehouse or an exposed parking garage. [...]
Innovation: The Mark of a Leader
“Necessity [is] the mother of invention,” penned playwright George Farquhar. Many fire and life safety products have come about following tragedy. Cries for change immediately following major fires have led to new laws and building code changes, and oftentimes they have served as the impetus for new technologies that better protect people and property.
Then there [...]
Editorial: Challenge the Definition of Life Safety
Product innovation will continue to be one of the growth drivers in the fire- and life-safety industry. While our industry’s growth is tightly linked to construction activity, true growth will occur through innovations that better protect life and property.
At System Sensor, we are committed to expanding the life-safety proposition, never accepting the status quo. This [...]
Editorial: Continuous Product Development
System Sensor continues to develop innovative products that help protect life and property by providing total life-safety coverage throughout a building.