When a fire breaks out in a high-rise building, conventional wisdom is that stairwells are the only way out. Lifts are verboten in such scenarios, while sheer height typically prevents any other ...
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The push for rooftop power, and the high-rise hurdle
On the terrace of MJR Pearl, a 14-storey apartment complex in Bengaluru’s Whitefield, rows of photovoltaic panels have turned the roof into a 150-kW power plant. For the residents of the 416-apartment ...
As the number of challenges associated with high-rise buildings continue to increase, so too does the responsibility of the fire department to know as much as possible about these buildings’ design, ...
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