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Harrington Group consistently delivers best-in-class customer service and solutions to each and every one of our clients. Below you can read through selected stories of how we helped clients fulfill their needs.

Flammable Liquid Storage Evaluation
HGI was asked to perform a quality assurance review of a design prepared by another fire protection engineering consultant. The scope of the design included a fire hazard analysis and development of a fire protection
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Analysis of a Fatal Fire
A fatal fire occurred in a single-family residence. One expert concluded that the presence of smoke detectors at the time of the fire would not have prevented the fatality.
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Fire Suppression Failure Investigation
A large telecommunications company utilized high-pressure gaseous fire extinguishing systems to provide protection for a number of critical facilities. One of these systems discharged suddenly for no apparent reason.
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Fire & Life Safety Analysis
A chemical manufacturer was expanding production of their PTFE (Polytetrafluoroethylene) process, which required the construction of a new annex building adjacent to their existing polymerization building.
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Water Supply and Sprinkler Analysis
A chemical manufacturer acquired an existing plant and was retrofitting a process room for their needs. The local fire marshal expressed concerns regarding the intended sprinkler protection criteria for the process room.
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FM-200 Extinguishing System
An engineering and testing firm recommended Harrington Group to their long-term client, a major banking facility. The client was becoming very concerned with the performance of a fire protection contractor
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Property Loss Control
The HPR property insurance underwriter for a manufacturer issued a warning that additional reinsurance of about $500,000 would have to be purchased annually, and passed on to the insured, our client.
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Code Variance - Fire and Smoke Modeling
Harrington Group helped our client to achieve a variance to certain code requirements related to smoke and heat venting.
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Property Loss Control
A carpet manufacturer in Virginia received a mandatory recommendation from their HPR insurance carrier to provide an additional private fire pump and water supply.
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Property Loss Control
This Georgia manufacturer had a single facility producing electric power distribution equipment. The HPR property insurance carrier issued a letter to the client through their insurance
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Life Safety Analysis
We prepared a life safety evaluation for the new Athletic, Recreation and Physical Education Complex at a major university in Georgia.
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Fire Protection System Design
A major newspaper plant in Ohio had preliminary A/E drawings completed along with their insurance carrier's fire protection and loss control recommendations. We attended a coordination meeting to
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Code Equivalency Analysis
Our client's extended-stay hotels are typically three stories tall and of wood frame construction. Each unit is made up of sleeping, cooking, and sanitary accommodations. The hotels are all protected by automatic sprinkler
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Computer Fire Modeling
A client had a 710,000-ft2 build-to-suit distribution center in Kentucky leased to ultimately house automotive replacement parts.
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