What Happens When a Fire Safety Engineer Peer Reviews a Design? A peer review is more than a second set of eyes. Fire engineering designs can involve complex assumptions, calculations, modelling and engineering judgement. An independent review provides an opportunity...
The Hidden Risks in Exterior Wall Assemblies In modern construction, we’ve made buildings lighter, more energy efficient, and more visually striking than ever before using exterior cladding or façade systems. These systems include combustible materials like aluminium...
Product Traceability Fire Safety Compliance and Legal Protection Traceability is the ability to share information about a product or system along its supply chain and lifecycle, across production, distribution, installation and maintenance. The purpose is to ensure...
National Construction Code (NCC) 2025 The NCC 2025 is now available. This new edition includes changes to: Carpark fire safety: Sprinkler protection for open deck carparks (other than stand-alone open deck carparks) and reduced scenarios where concessions to fire...
To design safe buildings, fire safety engineers must understand how occupants behave during a fire emergency. In simple terms, the time occupants take to evacuate to a place of safety must not exceed the time it takes for fire conditions to become untenable within the...
Modern Methods of Construction Modern methods of construction (MMC) encompass a wide range of innovative approaches, including prefabricated and modular building technologies as well as additive manufacturing, such as 3D-printed concrete. Unlike traditional...
It is important to keep up-to-date with codes and legislation. The NCC editions are adopted by different states at different times. NCC (National Construction Code) 2022 Amendment 2 has been published to align the NCC with recent changes to the Disability (Access to...
Every building we live and work in contains elements designed to protect us in the event of a fire. This sometimes invisible web of protection is known as the building fire safety strategy. The National Construction Code (NCC) defines a fire safety system as one or...