Fire protection and safety

Ambulatory Surgery Center Safety Guidebook: Managing Code Requirements for Fire and Life Safety helps guide ASC administrative and security staff meet the requirements and standards of both federal and state authorities, including the Life Safety Code, a critical designation for facilities participating in Medicare (CMS) funding reimbursement.

Guidelines for Vapor Release Mitigation is a survey of current industrial practice for controlling accidental releases of hazardous vapors and preventing their escape from the source area.

Kenntnisse des Chemikalien- und Gefahrstoffrechtes sind für eine verantwortungsvolle Verwendung von jeder Art von Stoffen, Gemischen, Erzeugnissen Grundvoraussetzung.

This book provides an overview of the initiation of combustion processes of polymeric materials.

This book discusses resilience in terms of structures' and infrastructures' responses to extreme loading conditions.

This book presents the preservation principles and the current environmental challenges relating to monitoring heritage sites and buildings under the effects of climate change.

Dieses Fachbuch erklärt die Planung, den Bau und erläutert die Vorschriften für Flucht- und Rettungswege.

From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.

This companion to the bestselling Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction is an essential revision aid for students preparing for their written assessments on the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety.

This book gathers proceedings of the 18th World Conference on Seismic Isolation (18WCSI), held in Antalya, Turkiye on November 6-10, 2023.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the Second RILEM International Conference on Earthen Construction (ICEC), held in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, on July 8-10, 2024.

This book gathers selected, extended and revised papers presented at the 5th Iberian-Latin American Congress on Fire Safety, CILASCI 5, held on 15-17 July 2019, in Porto, Portugal.

This book presents a theoretical framework for the quantitative calculation of casualties and damage from jet fires caused by high-pressure gas leaks in pressure vessels or pipelines.

This tenth edition of the most popular and trusted guide reflects all the latest amendments to the Building Regulations, planning permission and the Approved Documents in England and Wales.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of seismic engineering, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the 2nd International Workshop on Energy-Based Seismic Engineering (IWEBSE), held in Porto, Portugal, on July 3-6, 2023.

Fire Safety Design for Tall Buildings provides structural engineers, architects, and students with a systematic introduction to fire safety design for tall buildings based on current analysis methods, design guidelines, and codes.

While there are many resources available on fire protection and prevention in chemical petrochemical and petroleum plants this is the first book that pulls them all together in one comprehensive resource.

This companion to the bestselling Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction is an essential revision aid for students preparing for their written assessments on the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety.

This textbook is intended for post-graduate students in mechanical and allied engineering disciplines.

This updated edition retains its introduction to applied fundamental statistics, probability, reliability, and decision theory as these pertain to problems in Civil Engineering.

The world has spent the majority of 2020 enduring an unpreceded crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book provides chemists with technical insight on pyrotechnics and explosives.

This reference work encompasses the current, accepted state of the art in the science of wildfires and wildfires that spread to communities, known as wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires.

This book provides information on the generation and the effects of hazardous substances that are produced during welding and allied processes.

Examines key aspects of quantifying fire safety: property damage, performance of fire services/measures, fire safety modeling and verification, and stochastic modeling.

Technical Due Diligence and Building Surveying for Commercial Property is the first book to introduce the process of technical due diligence (TDD) and examine the role of the building surveyor within the commercial property sector.

This book covers the economics of construction safety, such as the asymmetric information of different construction practitioners in Hong Kong, studies feminism in Australia's traditionally male-dominated construction industry, and researches an efficient Small-Scale Contractors' construction health and safety performance management in Zambia.

This edited volume is an up-to-date guide for students, policy makers and engineers on earthquake engineering, including methods and technologies for seismic hazard detection and mitigation.

This book proposes the tool change methods for the excessive tool wear in the construction rules of shield tunnel construction in China.

This book provides the latest developments on safety practices utilized in composite manufacturing facilities for students, workers, engineers, and other participants.

Das Buch, das die Komplizenschaft von CIA und US-Regierung im globalen Drogenhandel nachweistEs gab mal einen Krieg, der hieß Prohibition.

As a consequence of the Grenfell Tower fire, a building safety revolution is underway for construction and property professionals.

This book belongs to the field of mine safety, and it first introduces the severity of mine fire and the impact of mine fire on air flow through practical cases, and then leads to the most important control technology of underground air flow during fire.

In the realm of safety management, this book embarks on a profound exploration of how the political economy was reshaped in the last two decades.

Risk science is becoming increasingly important as businesses, policymakers and public sector leaders are tasked with decision-making and investment using varying levels of knowledge and information.

This book presents select proceedings of the 4th Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition (SICE-2022), organized at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.

This book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021).

When health and safety regulatory frameworks took their present form in the 1970s, they were seen as a triumph of welfare state intervention.

This book sets out the urgent changes to practices and behaviours required to build a new building safety regime in the UK and prevent a similar tragedy to the fire at Grenfell Tower from reoccurring.

This book highlights recent findings in civil and environmental engineering and urban planning, and provides an overview of the state of the art in these fields, mainly in Russia and Eastern Europe.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Durability of Critical Infrastructure.

Siting of permanent and temporary buildings in process areas requires careful consideration of potential effects of explosions and fires arising from accidental release of flammable materials.

This Handbook is focused on structural resilience in the event of fire.

Culture by Design is about shifting focus from solely organisational outcomes and performance, towards organisational culture and wellbeing.

This book presents the research results of advanced vibration control technology, based on two types of typical equipment in industrial engineering of China: power equipment and vibration-sensitive equipment.

Andrew Furness and Martin Muckett give an introduction to all areas of fire safety management, including the legal framework, causes and prevention of fire and explosions, fire protection measures, fire risk assessment, and fire investigation.

The Grenfell Tower tragedy was the worst residential fire in London since World War II.

The rapid development of China's transportation system brings huge challenges to fire safety issues.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the Second RILEM International Conference on Earthen Construction (ICEC), held in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, on July 8-10, 2024.

Extensively using experimental and numerical illustrations, CombustionPhenomena: Selected Mechanisms of Flame Formation, Propagation, and Extinction provides a comprehensive survey of the fundamental processes of flame formation, propagation, and extinction.