Here is how the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 101 Life Safety Code defines industrial occupancy, including subclassifications of industrial occupancy, and some of the most common business operations that may take place in these buildings.
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October is National Fire Prevention Month, with National Fire Prevention Week taking place October 8-14. Because cooking fires are the leading cause of home fires and home fire injuries, and unattended cooking is the leading cause of cooking fires and deaths, this year’s theme is Cooking Safety Starts with You; Pay Attention to Fire Prevention™.
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Recent data from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) sheds light on the risks of fire on industrial properties used for manufacturing and warehousing. This underscores the importance of proper fire alarm design in these sectors, and a need for tools that can streamline and improve the fire alarm design process.
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It’s time to get excited about FireCAD 2023, the upcoming standalone bundle of Autocad OEM and FireCAD from the fire alarm design experts at Cadgen.
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FireCAD™ by CadGen Software is the complete solution for security and fire alarm installers to produce fire alarm designs, streamline the production of fire alarm layout drawings, and generate system riser diagrams easily and efficiently. Here’s the latest update for 2022! How To Update the FireCAD™ Software to the Latest Version To get the update,
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Since 2015, Cadgen has helped electrical, fire and security contractors throughout the U.S. with their projects, by licensing them the FireCAD fire alarm design application. But the roots of the company began much earlier — more than 50 years earlier, actually, when August Conte began his career in the fire alarm industry in Chicago. Family
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After decades of working side-by-side with his father in fire alarm design and software development, Tony Conte had a successful fire alarm design software product that helped contractors automate their projects in AutoCAD. His product, FireCAD, had numerous satisfied customers around the United States — including industry-leading names like Siemens, Johnson Controls and Honeywell. A New
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