January 22 2007 - News
A comprehensive carbon monoxide (CO) detector law is now in effect across Illinois, according to a newspaper report.
October 12 2007 - News
A new Vermont law is requiring all apartments and condos to have hard-wired carbon monoxide (CO) detectors. The use of battery-operated CO detectors in the dwellings will no longer meet law requirements.
June 7 2007 - News
The International Code Council (ICC) has stopped a proposal to mandate fire sprinklers in new residential construction projects across New York, citing limited benefits and greatly increased costs, according to a newspaper report.
October 2 2008 - News
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is lauding the International Code Council (ICC) after its recent vote to require all new ones- and two-family homes to be equipped with home fire sprinklers.
October 8 2008 - News
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is coordinating a campaign to increase the number of homes protected by sprinklers. This is the second major fire safety campaign NFPA has undertaken recently.
January 1 2006 - Article
If a new national standard is issued on the use of copper pipes or the size of a home's septic tank, the attention span of an electronic security and life-safety contractor goes right down the drain. If it has nothing to do with wiring, annunciators and controllers, dealers and integrators don't want to hear anything of it.
December 1 2006 - Article
In 2004, there were 1.56 million fires attended by fire departments across the United States, with more than a half-million taking place within a structure of some type. An overwhelming majority of them, 410,500 to be exact (78 percent), took place in a home, according to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) of Quincy, Mass.
January 1 2009 - Article
Monitoring fees have decreased, credit is tight, new home construction has slowed, people are losing their homes, disposable income has disappeared and retail is slumping. It seems the only good news for residential installing security contractors these days is that gas prices have hit their lowest levels in recent years; but how long will that last?
November 1 2005 - Article
But false alarms continue to decay the industry, and the only way to ensure the future health of installing and monitoring companies is to drill down deep to the root of the problem.
February 1 2009 - Article
Where there's fire, there's smoke. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more fire victims die from smoke and toxic gases than from burns. The most important part of installing any smoke detector is understanding why it is necessary in the first place and why it should be placed in a certain location. There is no doubt smoke detectors save lives, but that is a fact far too many people take for granted.
May 1 2009 - Article
While some home and business owners may view security monitoring as a discretionary expense during hard economic times, life safety remains a key selling point that is helping dealers and integrators fight attrition rates.
May 1 2009 - Article
Because people's homes can be part of their lives for many years, renovation is often undertaken to transform the living space to make it more aesthetically pleasing, functional or to serve new requirements. Whether it involves remodeling kitchens, bathrooms or other living spaces, renovation can be mind-bending.