Q: I live in a townhouse in Gaithersburg, Maryland, built in the early 1980s. It has a finished basement with a small egress window with a rounded well outside. During heavy rainstorms, which we've ...

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SCHAUMBURG, IL – With summer’s end and as fall temperatures arrive, fire safety comes back into focus, as October 8-14 is Fire Prevention Week in the U.S. When it comes to a fire emergency, the Window ...

Pictured: Example of computational fire modeling in a large industrial manufacturing facility. The model shows the fire location, and outputs information such as heat release rate and visibility, ...

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