All Articles Tagged Fire Sprinklers

CE Pro Editors | 03/08 08:54 AM, 0 Comments

Video technologies like 3D TV and the iPad garner a lot of media coverage, but security dealers know their industry is in on the cusp of real change. There’s the proliferation of IP cameras making Web monitoring accessible to middle-class residential clients. There’s voice over Internet protocol telephony (VoIP) reshuffling the role of central stations and making plain old telephone systems (POTS) an endangered species. There’s also the very real possibility of a universal demand for residential fire sprinklers. For perspective on what the security industry is going through, we… View this story

Jason Knott | 12/29 05:58 AM, 19 Comments

The United States is getting closer and closer to a radical new requirement in the construction of new single-family and two-family homes: the requirement of interior fire sprinkler systems. The next stage was set back on November 1 when the International Code Council's (ICC) Residential Building Code Committee voted, 7-4, to keep the residential fire sprinkler system requirement for one- and two-family new construction homes in the International Residential Code (IRC) that is used in 46 states. The requirement was in danger when the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)… View this story