Longtime Fire Engineering Writer and FDIC Instructor Greg Havel Passes On
The staff of Fire Engineering/FDIC International is saddened by the passing of our longtime magazine and Web author and instructor Gregory Havel.
Construction Concerns
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Construction Concerns: IBC 2021 Heavy Timber Proposal
If we wish to avoid increasing the incidence of firefighter injuries and fatalities in these unfamiliar structures, we will need more planning, education, and training for fire department personnel, writes Greg Havel.
Construction Concerns: Boiler Controls and Safety Devices
Greg Havel discusses some considerations for firefighters responding to an emergency at a facility with a boiler or other heating appliance with a discharging pressure relief valve.
Construction Concerns: Foundations, Part 2
Gregory Havel continues his look at the basic construction and building blocks of the structural foundations to which firefighters will eventually have to respond.
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Construction Concerns: Complacency and Building Design
For his new Construction Concerns, Gregory Havel examines the structural issues surrounding the July 17, 1981, collapse of the Hyatt Regency skywalks in Kansas City, Missouri, the deadliest structural collapse in U.S. history until the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11.
Construction Concerns: Concrete Reinforcement
For his latest Construction Concerns, Gregory Havel examines the combustibility of concrete reinforcements in common structures.
Construction Concerns: Hole Covers
Greg Havel reviews the hazards holes present for firefighters working at construction sites and how hole covers may factor into fireground safety.
Construction Concerns: Thermal Breaks
Greg Havel looks at how building methods to reduce heat loss through and around windows may impact firefighting operations.
Construction Concerns: Galvanic Corrosion
"Galvanic corrosion" is damage caused when two dissimilar metals are joined in the presence of an electrolyte. Greg Havel on how this phenomenon can affect building construction and firefighting operations.
Corrosion Protection in Dry-Pipe Systems
Greg Havel looks at methods for mitigating corrosion in dry-pipe sprinkler systems, including nitrogen generators, and what firefighters need to know about them.
Construction Concerns: Corrosion
Corrosion of a metal can be defined as its degrading from a reaction with its environment. Greg Havel looks closer at this phenomenon and what it might mean for firefighters.
Construction Concerns: Shotcrete
In this new column on building construction details for firefighters, Greg Havel looks at another method used for placing concrete at construction sites.