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Adaptive Reuse Fire Protection Engineering

Old Walls, New Occupants: Fire Protection and Life Safety in Adaptive Reuse

How Fire Protection and Life Safety Engineering Enabled the Distillery District Transformation The Gooderham & Worts distillery stopped production in 1990. Thirteen years later, the same buildings reopened as a pedestrian village of restaurants, galleries, shops and theatres, and residential development followed. Very little about the structures themselves changed. Almost everything about how they are

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Ontario Fire Code Specimen Storage Requirements

Insights / By mdevine@lrifire.com

What Facilities Need to Know in 2026 Navigating New Fire Safety Requirements for Biological Specimen Storage The 2026 Ontario Fire Code specimen storage requirements have significantly changed compliance obligations for medical laboratories, healthcare facilities, research institutions, veterinary clinics, and museums across Ontario. Effective January 1, 2026, the updated Ontario Fire Code introduced stricter fire safety

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When Storage Changes, Fire Protection Changes

Insights / By Arfa Syed

Introduction Storage is usually treated as an operational detail, something that the tenant sorts out once the lease has been signed, when it is really a design input. The types of materials a building can store, how high it can be piled, and how it must be laid out are all integral factors in determining

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