Fire rated door assemblies play an important role in saving lives and minimizing property damage by providing safe egress and compartmentalizing smoke, flames and when required, dangerous radiant heat ...

As highlighted during Fire Door Safety Week, fire doors are engineered to do a vital job – but they can’t do that job if they’re wedged open or broken. They must close into the frame and fit against ...

Building design today, and throughout the 20th century, has been significantly shaped by fire safety considerations. Architects today are familiar with the wide range of code requirements for a ...

Fire walls and fire barriers are inserted into buildings to separate spaces into reasonably-sized fire areas, or because hazards are present. The separations must be continuous or their purpose will ...

When access control hardware is installed on doors in a new or existing building, it’s extremely important to be aware of the fire, life-safety and building codes that impact these applications.

It’s no great surprise to me that a fire door that should achieve a 30-minute fire rating failed during testing in half the time. This was the result of tests carried out on a door in Grenfell Tower ...

After 17 people died in a Bronx inferno 12 months ago, fire investigators blamed a space heater and broken fire doors. Residents on the third floor of 333 East 181st Street, known as Twin Parks North ...

A London borough has shifted its target to replace thousands of front doors with fire-resistant models after changes to building safety regulations. In 2018, Hackney Council said it would install ...

Thousands of fire doors identical to those blamed for helping spread the blaze at Grenfell Tower are still being used in public housing across the UK, HuffPost UK can reveal. Freedom of Information ...

Seventeen people killed in Sunday’s fire inhaled smoke that poured out of a single apartment. Its door-closing mechanism did not work, officials said. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Tuesday. We’ll ...