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12
Mar
2026
Special hazard fire suppression systems protect some of the most critical and expensive assets in a facility, which is exactly why insurers pay close attention to how those systems are ...
05
Mar
2026
Commissioning Special Hazard Suppression Systems in Canada: Acceptance Tests, Common Misses, and Close-Out Documentation
26
Feb
2026
A clean agent discharge can successfully stop a fire without the water damage associated with conventional suppression, but the discharge itself is not the end of the incident. For many ...
19
Feb
2026
When a clean agent system fails a room integrity test, the suppression system is often blamed first. In reality, many failures have little to do with the agent, cylinders, or ...
12
Feb
2026
When facilities plan fire protection for electrical cabinets, PLC panels, MCCs, and other control equipment, the biggest mistake is often assuming the whole room needs the same level of protection ...
05
Feb
2026
Commercial and retail spaces, with the, oftentimes, constantly changing rotation of tenants, building setups, and fire loads, are among the more complex pre-planning projects fire departments face.
29
Jan
2026
While large scale BESS systems are becoming more and more common, this article deals with smaller, localized battery rooms used in telecom and some industrial backup. These battery rooms are ...
22
Jan
2026
Mechanical and electrical rooms are often treated as background infrastructure-out of sight, rarely visited, and assumed to be adequately protected by a building’s general fire suppression system. In reality ...
