Editor's Note: This is first article in a series that will look at the importance of understanding the components of building construction and design. This column is designed to assist firefighters ...

Electrical professionals have long observed the “underloading” of customer-owned transformers, which, in part, is brought about by National Electrical Code (NEC) Chapter 2 design demand rules. This ...

In the past few articles, we have looked into several different building components including structure, HVAC, roofs, in addition to performance based design. One important building component that we ...

It’s 2020, and the global standards for building electrical systems are still based on 70-year-old Thomas Edison era electromechanical architecture that is outdated, prone to malfunction, and lacking ...