Fire Tests Give Insights Into WTC Tragedy
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is conducting a 24-month building and fire safety investigation to study the factors contributing...
Handling Security With Care
Securing the safety of the artifacts, people and buildings that make up the vast Smithsonian Institution would be a daunting task. The Smithsonian Institution...
HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE
When Green Bay fans registered their overwhelming approval for the Packers to stay on the frozen tundra at Lambeau Field rather than move to a new stadium,...
System Helps Students Rest Easier
The University of Utah has chosen to install electronically monitored fire extinguishers in one of its residence halls. MIJA Inc., Rockland, Md., has...
Grande Tour
By Carol Carey
How do you keep tabs on security and life safety at a resort complex that boasts two high-rise hotels, a 40,000-square-foot spa/pool building, more than...
Product Focus
Fire Alarm Station Cover Protects manual alarm stations from false alarms The poly-carbonate cover is used to protect manual alarm stations from false...
Internal Audit
If indeed nothing is certain in life except death and taxes, the corollary is: It is essential to protect taxes and the people who collect them. That's...
The Basics And Beyond
BY JAMES GOMPERS
In almost every building, in almost every industry, in almost every country, security professionals lay the foundation of their asset protection plans...
Securing Detroit's Gridiron
When the Detroit Lions opened last year's football season at their new Ford Field home in Detroit, they also opened the doors to better safety and security....
Fire Safety Network Takes Off
The nearly 250-square-mile Spaceport the public thinks of as Cape Canaveral is actually occupied by two separate, though related, groups of users. They...
Opportunity Knocks
In the late 1960s, Jay Smart began fire testing an acoustically rated folding partition. He was almost obsessed with the idea of engineering a sliding...
FIRE ALARMS
It is estimated that four international holding companies represent approximately 73 percent of U.S. fire alarm systems equipment sales. They are: Honeywell...
Ramapo College Gets High Marks For Fire Protection
Ramapo College of New Jersey is committed to offering an environment dedicated to the growth, well-being and safety of each of its 5,000 students and...
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF PROPER LIGHTING
By Chris Hertig and Andrew Romero
DESIGN LIGHTING TO ADDRESS RELEVANT THREATS Assess threats before planning a lighting system. Don't focus on a single threat (mugging, graffiti, or accidents)...
INTERCOMS AND COMMUNICATION DEVICES AT A GLANCE
A comparison of suppliers' current product offerings. Company Information System/model name and number Generic description Digital or analog? Programmable...
NFPA SUPPORTS TRANSMISSION OF FIRE SIGNALS ACROSS NETWORKS
Data networks including both the Internet and private intranets could soon be used to transmit fire alarm and other life safety-related signals to central...
Long shot: Keeping the odds of fire low at Churchill Downs
Robert Bailey Glenn Woods Tobias Roush
On the first Saturday in May, thousands are drawn to Churchill Downs by a simple premise: A run at the roses. Few people in the packed grandstand ever...
Inside the Van Andel Research Institute
The success of a networked solution for fire detection, access control, CCTV and video badging When its doors opened in May 2000, the Van Andel Research...
Keeping a national research center safe from fire
When a fire alarm occurs, the local supervisory panel shuts down the air handling system to protect equipment and avoid spreading smoke. Any campus where...
Tailoring access control to fire codes
By MICHAEL FICKES
The basic problem boiled down to a dispute over the definition of a primary power supply. Security system integrators welcome the opportunity to install...
Center for Developmental Disabilities installs access control, CCTV, fire alarms
AC&SSI STAFF
The center for Developmental Disabilities in Woodbury, N.Y., has come a long way since it began in 1958 as a few families seeking an alternative to institutional...
Fire technology proves its worth at Fauquier Hospital
ACCESS CONTROL & SECURITY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION STAFF
Fauquier Hospital is an 86-bed nonprofit, private community hospital of trustees. It is the only hospital in Fauquier County, Va., some 40 miles west...
Sounds of security
Randy Southerland
Staples, the Office Superstore, has become a familiar retail chain in Canada. The office supply chain has more than 150 colorful stores spread throughout...
What's new in intercoms, phone systems
Jeanne Bonner
The field of communication, phone and intercom systems is growing. With recent advances in the use of video and biometrics, the systems are no longer...
Dispatch to nowhere
Randy Southerland
It is a long Midwestern winter night as Officer Steve McNeal drives his squad car down deserted Main Street. The lawman is in a hurry because his radio...
