The advent of technology has brought upon the rail industry to move large quantity of people using trains. Trains generally carry large amount of people and will be susceptible to a higher potential of casualties in the event of a tunnel fire compared to a road tunnel.The author of this article hopes that the application of fire engineering is able to mitigate or prevent the risk of fire in the rail industry in Malaysia and therefore contribute towards a safer rail environment.

The height and complexity of high rise buildings has increased dramatically over the past 20 years. This has led to new approaches and strategies for providing appropriate fire and life safety in these buildings.

Exploring the contractor’s right to Suspending and/or Slowing down Works for non payment.

To what extent ‘pay when paid’ clause applies to construction contracts?

The purpose of this work is to study the attenuation of the radiative heat flux along the egress path, with sprinklers’ discharge between the egress path and the seat of fire

Almost every construction contract comes with a LAD clause: i.e. where a party fails to complete the works by an agreed date, the other party is entitled to impose a sum payable by the defaulting party …