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SCHOOL FIRES: A FAMILIAR STORY, AN AVOIDABLE COST
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WAREHOUSES - 20 YEARS ON: HAVE WE RUN OUT OF ROAD?
June 10 2026Tom Roche, Secretary at the Business Sprinkler Alliance
Twenty years ago, a piece of regulatory guidance quietly set a ceiling, quite literally, on what a warehouse could be without sprinklers....
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THE HIDDEN CARBON COST OF INFRASTRUCTURE LOSS
May 07 2026Tom Roche, Secretary at the Business Sprinkler Alliance
Sustainability reporting across major infrastructure has become increasingly sophisticated. Airports and transport hubs now measure...
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MASS TIMBER AND WATER: ARE WE ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS?
May 07 2026Tom Roche, Secretary of the Business Sprinkler Alliance
“Why sprinkler water - not fire - is mass timber’s greatest threat” was the original headline of a recent research article. Take a moment...
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SAVING LIVES AND BUSINESSES SINCE 1877
April 10 2026By Tom Roche, Secretary of the Business Sprinkler Alliance
In February 1877, a fire broke out in a Massachusetts mill. It was, by most accounts, an unremarkable fire and the kind of incident that...
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