Whenever I read something that includes statistical analysis, I recall that famous expression of sports enthusiasts: “Statistics never lie.” This is definitely the case concerning statistics presented on fire sprinklers
When someone a) badly
misinterprets the code, b) abuses his own authority and c) gives the entire
fire protection industry a black eye in the process, it’s time to
start requiring plan reviewers to be held accountable for some type of
professional standard.
The ICC Annual Meeting in Minneapolis will be
the deciding grounds for whether residential sprinklers are mandated in the
International Residential Code. It looks to be an interesting meeting this
September.
For some time now I’ve been quite curious about
BIM (building information modeling) as a result of its increasing appearance in
news stories related to engineering (plumbing and otherwise). Yet it wasn’t
until the recent viewing of a television show by the noted chef Emeril Lagasse
that I felt the need to pen an editorial on the topic.