Unforeseen Challenges In Meeting Fire Codes

Posted on Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

This is the conclusion of our three-part series on How Qualified Fire Code Consultants Can Help You Avoid Fire Code Problems. Several weeks after we submitted our report, thinking we were moving forward, our code consultants learned from the owner of the trampoline park that the fire marshal would not issue a certificate of occupancy...read the full article

Research That Can Help You Avoid Fire Code Problems

Posted on Thursday, January 3rd, 2013

This is part 2 of our 3 part series of how How Qualified Fire Code Consultants Can Help You Avoid Fire Code Problems. Harrington Group’s code consultants began investigating the various elements of the indoor trampoline park project, such as how many people would be on the trampolines simultaneously and so on. Then, early in...read the full article

How Qualified Fire Code Consultants Can Help You Avoid Fire Code Problems

Posted on Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

Recently, a couple of our code consultants were asked to venture into uncharted territory. A client in North Carolina was building an indoor trampoline park, and at that point, the state did not have any other such facilities. This was also a first for Harrington Group and fitting the facility into current building and fire...read the full article

Fire Protection Engineers Ensure Affordable Fire Safety Solutions

Posted on Friday, August 12th, 2011

Americans have reiterated several versions of the NASA space pen story for years. The story claimed that NASA spent millions of dollars developing an “astronaut pen” which would work in outer space while the Soviets solved the same problem by using pencils. Fortunately, the story isn’t true, but it does highlight a valid lesson: we sometimes spend a great deal of time, effort, and money creating “high-tech” solutions to problems when a simple solution is right in front of us. ...read the full article