Canadian engineer . ruc-tion. Before the introduction of reinforced concrete con-struction the only fireproof form of building was structuralsteel fireprofed. A reinforced concrete building gives very nearly fullp-otection from fire. Even though the building is in aconflagration district, if it is properly protected with wireglass windows, fire doors, etc., it wiU, as far as it is pos- ible to judge, come through a conflagration uninjured. Ifhe fire is a local one, it would be confined to the floor oroom where it started. The underwriters records of theJnitcd States show that there are forty f
Canadian engineer . ruc-tion. Before the introduction of reinforced concrete con-struction the only fireproof form of building was structuralsteel fireprofed. A reinforced concrete building gives very nearly fullp-otection from fire. Even though the building is in aconflagration district, if it is properly protected with wireglass windows, fire doors, etc., it wiU, as far as it is pos- ible to judge, come through a conflagration uninjured. Ifhe fire is a local one, it would be confined to the floor oroom where it started. The underwriters records of theJnitcd States show that there are forty fires causing loss inxcess of $25,000 per fire every week among industrial build-igs in that country, and that the annual per capita loss fortie United States is something in excess of $ as com-ared to an average loss per capita of seven European citiesf 30 cents. The cost of a reinforced concrete fireproofuildin^- under tmost conditions would not exceed a non-reproof type of building by over 10 or 15 per cent. n. Concrete Cotton Factory. The most serious damage to the contents of a buildingtter a fire is due to water. To this condition, concreteLiildings owe much of their popularity at the present time,concrete floor is a monolith, and water from sprinklers orDse will remain floor where it falls and does notm down through several storeys as in the case of ordinarypes of construction. The best practice of the day in the3sign of concrete industrial buildings provides a smallirb, generally not over three inches high, at all stair andevator wells, lowerator shafts, and other openings through30rs, so that there is no possibility of water from a floodedDOT flowing into the lower story. To make this certain soup-:rs are usually placed in the waJls. Furthermore, theaterproofness of a reinforced concrete building is of great;rvice where industries using wet processes have to be3used, or where industries requiring frequent cleaning of)oms or floors are the tenants. A concrete
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