Posts Tagged: Sprinkler Systems
NFPA & Green Builder® Media to partner at VISION House®
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has partnered with Green Builder® Media, North America’s leading media company focused on sustainable living to participate in the VISION House® located in INNOVENTIONS at Epcot® at the Walt Disney Wor…
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Sprinkler Use Decisioning Web tool
Below you will find some excellant information sent to me by Mike Love.
Hi Folks:
I have been digging around at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) looking for
reports and work they have completed that may be o…
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Firehouse Podcast on some Green Issues
Just wanted to share this with you, in case you hadn't listened yet?
Fire Marshal's Corner: FM Global Report on Green and Sprinklers and the Dangers with Photovoltaic Units
Ed Comeau and Mike Love look at two perspectives of the impact of fires on th…
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GO PURDUE!!
Green Maltese was able to go on another fun educational field trip again!
This field trip was to West Lafayette to Purdue University to visit the Team Purdue IN Home open house.
The INHome is a part of the 2011 U.S. Department of Energy Solar …
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Expand your fire safety education at no cost.
Expand your fire safety education at no cost.
Become a BUILT FOR LIFE® Fire Department.
It's challenging to make fire safety education a priority today. Most departments are strapped for time and money, and have a lot of competing responsibilities with limited resources for educational outreach. HFSC created the BUILT FOR LIFE Fire Department Program specifically to help departments like yours that want to do more to prevent home fire injuries and deaths, but need some help.
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What saves lives and the environment?
We all know that fire sprinklers save lives, this should be reason enough to install them! however most people do not think of fire sprinklers being green.
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St. LOUIS MO. HABITAT for HUMANITY GOES GREEN
The Habitat for Humanity St. Louis (HFHSL) a nonprofit agency has recently built 17 green homes just north of downtown St. Louis Mo.
Habitat for Humanity was able to build green by using sustainable materials and installing eco-friendly products, such as tankless water heaters, geothermal exchange heating and cooling systems, structural insulated panels, cool roofs, low-VOC paints, and copper fire sprinkler systems.
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What’s in your daughter’s dorm room?
Here's a pretty cool local news story from yesterday. A couple of our local Colleges (Virginia Tech and Va. Western) have been working together to highlight fire safety in college dorm rooms.
See our local news coverage HERE and the video below …
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Painted Sprinkler Heads
Doing a thorough inspection on remodels could prevent something like this. This is a safety issue for both the occupants and firefighters.
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