This Fire Science and Building Technology CD-ROM features the activities of the United States Building and Fire Research Laboratory and other U.S. Government activities in the fields of fire science and building technology. The Laboratory's Mission and Vision, Organization, and Staff Biographies are covered. The subjects of publications, reports, and abstracts contained in this CD-ROM include virtually all areas of fire science including fire and the weather; fire detection and alarms, fire safety, fire safety and building construction of all types of structures, fire science and the behavior of flames, plumes, smoke and emissions; fire suppression and fire suppression systems; residential fire type photography and smoke detector installations with photographic illustrations. The CD-ROM features abstracts for over 2000 BFRL publications; over 300 BFRL publications are included. BFRL Programs covered include: Advanced Fire Service Technology; Advanced Measurement and Predictive Methods for Fire Loss Reduction; CONSIAT (Construction Integration and Automation Technology); CONSAFE (Construction Systems and Safety); Cybernetic Building System; Healthy and Sustainable Buildings; HYPERCON Partnership for High-Performance Concrete Technology; Optimized Building Life-Cycle Performance; Reduced Risk of Flashover; Service Life Prediction of High Performance Polymeric Construction Materials; Structural Performance Prediction
The Building Stone of the United States: the NIST Test Wall, is a feature of the CD-ROM. The Test Wall is comprehensively covered including individual stone descriptions and photography.
This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work for libraries, researchers, schools, students, and home reference! It is designed to provide a convenient user-friendly general reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review. The documents are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.
