UL to Sponsor Symposium on Designing Fire Safety into Residential Construction

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and the Phoenix Fire Department are hosting a two-day educational symposium in Phoenix, AZ on December 2nd and 3rd, 2009. The symposium's goal is to share ideas and foster discussion among interested parties who want to learn more and share ideas about designing fire safety into residential buildings in North America.

Topics covered in this symposium include:

• Overview of today’s residential fire environment


• Benefits of lightweight construction materials within residential building designs


• Scientific fire research results of testing lightweight construction materials


• Protection methods for lightweight construction materials used in home building


• Smoke characterization research and advances in smoke alarm technology


• Fire resistant building materials: properties and benefits


• The experience of selling and installing residential sprinklers


• Industry comparisons of safety initiatives


• The realtors’ perspective on fire safety solutions in the home


• Perspective of builders on home fire safety


• Additional topics related to home fire safety, including insurance and fire prevention

To find out more go to http://www.uluniversity.us/catalog/display.resource.aspx?resourceid=228281.