Kemano, British Columbia, was a company town built 50 years ago by Alcan Smelters and Chemicals Ltd. to support its hydroelectric station. When the station became essentially automated, making the town obsolete, an idea was born. The deserted town was donated to British Columbia's fire services for training and research, which has been known as the Kemano Public Safety Initiative (KPSI). In addition to becoming a proving ground for firefighting, abandoned houses filled with donated furniture and props made an ideal, full-scale experimental site. Using this unique opportunity, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) completed two series of fire experiments at the Kemano Village: one to study the response of smoke detectors in houses, a...
In recent years, NRC has conducted collaborative research projects to address issues related to smok...
s part of a joint research project between ASHRAE and the National Research Council of Canada (ASHRA...
A sprinkler-system controls the amount of smoke generated by fire as well as its spread, and should ...
Kemano Village in northern British Columbia was a company town owned by Alcan Smelters and Chemicals...
NRC's Fire Risk Management Program has completed an experimental study of a residential sprinkler sy...
NRC's Fire Risk Management Program has completed an experimental study of smoke-alarm response in re...
A recent project saw an entire Canadian town go up in flames and fire researchers were on hand to ta...
Working with the Underwriters' Laboratories of Canada, researchers in the Fire Risk Management Progr...
Working with the Underwriters' Laboratories of Canada, researchers in IRC's Fire Risk Management Pro...
The progress made in Canada in the field of fire safety in buildings, combined with developments in ...
A series of experiments at the National Fire Laboratory (NFL), measured the effects of water spray f...
NRC-IRC undertook a project in 2007, on behalf of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, to invest...
This paper presents results of a project initiated by ASHRAE and the National Research Council of Ca...
The development of water mist fire suppression technology has made substantial progress over the las...
A full-scale research project was undertaken to address one of the nuisance alarm problems in correc...
In recent years, NRC has conducted collaborative research projects to address issues related to smok...
s part of a joint research project between ASHRAE and the National Research Council of Canada (ASHRA...
A sprinkler-system controls the amount of smoke generated by fire as well as its spread, and should ...
Kemano Village in northern British Columbia was a company town owned by Alcan Smelters and Chemicals...
NRC's Fire Risk Management Program has completed an experimental study of a residential sprinkler sy...
NRC's Fire Risk Management Program has completed an experimental study of smoke-alarm response in re...
A recent project saw an entire Canadian town go up in flames and fire researchers were on hand to ta...
Working with the Underwriters' Laboratories of Canada, researchers in the Fire Risk Management Progr...
Working with the Underwriters' Laboratories of Canada, researchers in IRC's Fire Risk Management Pro...
The progress made in Canada in the field of fire safety in buildings, combined with developments in ...
A series of experiments at the National Fire Laboratory (NFL), measured the effects of water spray f...
NRC-IRC undertook a project in 2007, on behalf of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, to invest...
This paper presents results of a project initiated by ASHRAE and the National Research Council of Ca...
The development of water mist fire suppression technology has made substantial progress over the las...
A full-scale research project was undertaken to address one of the nuisance alarm problems in correc...
In recent years, NRC has conducted collaborative research projects to address issues related to smok...
s part of a joint research project between ASHRAE and the National Research Council of Canada (ASHRA...
A sprinkler-system controls the amount of smoke generated by fire as well as its spread, and should ...