How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering X: Fire Engineering Advocacy

Preface: How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering is a series of blog posts tracing the roots of my current career. From stumbling upon fire protection as a college student through starting Harrington Group as an…

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How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering IX: Making A Special Exception For A Client

Preface: How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering is a series of blog posts tracing the roots of my current career. From stumbling upon fire protection as a college student through starting Harrington Group as an…

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The Case Of Mysterious Pipe Corrosion

A few months ago, we were approached by a pharmaceutical client because another fire protection consultant recommended a treatment that would have done nothing to eliminate the actual cause and would have created recurring…

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What Do Drs. and Fire Protection Engineers Have In Common?

How could fire protection engineers possibly be like doctors? Well, have you ever had a radiating pain and were unsure of what was causing it? Many of us don’t like to go to doctors, but after delaying the inevitable, when you…

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How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering VIII: After WPI – Fire Insurance Prescriptions

Preface: How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering is a series of blog posts tracing the roots of my current career. From stumbling upon fire protection as a college student through starting Harrington Group as an…

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How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering VII: The Method Of Evaluation

Preface: How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering is a series of blog posts tracing the roots of my current career. From stumbling upon fire protection as a college student through starting Harrington Group as an…

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How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering VI: Leadership

Preface: How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering is a series of blog posts tracing the roots of my current career. From stumbling upon fire protection as a college student through starting Harrington Group as an…

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How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering V: The Major Qualifying Project

Preface: How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering is a series of blog posts tracing the roots of my current career. From stumbling upon fire protection as a college student through starting Harrington Group as an…

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Harrington Group, Inc. Celebrates 25th Anniversary

April 26, 2011 – Twenty-five years ago, Jeff Harrington saw the need to develop a higher quality, more informed resource for providing fire protection engineering consulting services.  He began Harrington Group, Inc. as a…

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How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering IV: Mentorship

Preface: How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering is a series of blog posts tracing the roots of my current career. From stumbling upon fire protection as a college student through starting Harrington Group as an…

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100th Anniversary of the Triangle Waist Co. Fire

As a fire safety engineer that has been practicing for over 30 years, I think the devastating fire at Triangle Waist Co was one of the most tragic to occur in the history of our country. On March 25, 1911, a fire in this shirt…

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Origin & Cause Investigation begins for Hawaii Fireworks Storage Explosion that Killed 5 People

According to media reports, an investigation is underway into the origin and cause of an explosion that occurred in a fireworks storage bunker in Waikele on Friday, April 8, 2011 at about 9:00 a.m. local time. Audrey McAvoy of…

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How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering III: My First Experience With Tangible Engineering

Preface: How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering is a series of blog posts tracing the roots of my current career. From stumbling upon fire protection as a college student through starting Harrington Group as an…

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How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering II: Abstract vs. Tangible Engineering

Preface: How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering is a series of blog posts tracing the roots of my current career. From stumbling upon fire protection as a college student through starting Harrington Group as an…

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How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering: The Framework

Preface: How I Stumbled Into Fire Protection Engineering is a series of blog posts tracing the roots of my current career. From stumbling upon fire protection as a college student through starting Harrington Group as an…

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