If you simply love trying to work in an office tower or live in a skyrise while constantly fighting the urge to barf or have your brain explode from stress, then you probably hate dampers. But dampers ...

Fire dampers are a crucial component of building design that should never be overlooked. Not only do they prevent the spread of fire through HVAC systems, but they also protect means of escape by ...

A recent roundtable, hosted in partnership with Siniat, tackled the complexities of fire damper specifying – and explored how fire protection specifying needs to change in the light of the Building ...

Keeping buildings safe from the threat of fire is a responsibility we all share as fire code inspectors, fire and smoke damper inspectors, building owners, and facility managers. Our overriding goal ...

Taipei 101, the icon of the Taipei skyline, was the tallest building in the world from 2004 to 2010, when the Burj Khalifa in Dubai overtook it. The 1,670-foot skyscaper remains a symbol of technology ...

Engineers have tested a structural damper filled with pressurized sand that continued working from 42°F to 140°F and even when moisture entered the device. The early results suggest that ordinary ...

The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) said on the 2nd that it has developed a "stiffness-adjustable tuned mass damper (TMD) technology" that can be easily installed ...

Building clients have been urged to carry out checks and repairs “without delay” on ventilation systems, after life-threatening defects were found in a large number of buildings. According to the ...