Commercial brokers forget their manners when discussing the three-letter classification system for New York office buildings. The three-tiered system that makes a space A, B or C is “a bad system ...
Because a Type IV building is more robust and thus more fire resistive — strategically — than a leaner Type III building, they are listed out of order numerically. The August 2009 installment ...
What type of construction? You may be surprised. An important feature of a pre-incident plan is the classification of building construction. Classifying the type of building should be simple, quick ...
Fire in buildings puts the safety of occupants at risk, either directly, by exposure to the fire conditions, or indirectly, as a result of the response of the building to exposure to fire. Potential ...