Archive for September2012
Live Online Radio tonight!
To all my Brothers & Sisters and friends! Make sure to tune in tonight night when the Engine House Training Guys talk to Brian Kazmierzak and Christopher Huston and John Shafer about the Training Officer process. 9/26 at 7:30 EST. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fireengineeringtalkradio/2012/09/26/episode-366-engine-house-training
New NIST Laboratory to test Net-Zero Home
The following information was released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): NIST Unveils Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility to Improve Testing of Energy-Efficient Technologies In a ribbon-cutting ceremony today, the U.S. Commerce Departments National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled a new laboratory designed to demonstrate that a typical-looking suburban home […]
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Entire House Framed with Engineered Wood
Thank You, good stuff! As a 19+ year volley of Long Island NY , I will pass on this info to our membership.
2017-09-06 14:41:36
Entire House Framed with Engineered Wood
This is certainly information worth knowing. Faster failure is a trap waiting for the unexpecting person. My personal experience with OSB, (Oriented Strand Board) is limited to discovering that it is seriously not weather resistant, and that the weathered stuff burns very well in a campfire. So THANKS for the information that I need to…
2017-09-05 20:41:44
Smart Shear Walls
Just another thing we as firefighters will need to be aware of under fire. Gusset plates will fail at 1000 degrees. Fires today are well over that. So know besides floor and roofs, we need to worry about walls collapsing.
2017-03-26 00:50:46
Smart Shear Walls
Please send any information and visual aides that can be used in my Fire Protection program classes at Cape cod Community College. Thank you, Robert Tucker Fire Science Coordinator
2017-03-24 20:45:41
