Undermining Your Expertise
March 28, 2012
“Seek First to Understand – Are you Really Listening?” is Habit #5 from Stephen Covey’s classic self-help book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. At Harrington Group, we try to manage our interactions with our employees and…
Are You Really Listening?
March 21, 2012
Sometimes, experience and expertise are a double-edged sword. Through years of working and building up knowledge, people develop skills that help them identify and solve problems that would have gone undetected or unsolved.…
Think Win/Win
News,Blog,HGI Development & Strategies,7 Habits
March 1, 2012
In recent events, we’ve seen an emergence of winner-takes-all strategies come into fashion. A winner-takes-all approach to business turns relationships into a competition. Dog-eat-dog business strategies are unsustainable, and…
The 7 Habits Of Harrington Group
News,Blog,HGI Development & Strategies,7 Habits
February 22, 2012
The economic recession in the early 1990s hit the real estate markets hard between 1990 and 1992. Architects suffered because new commercial and industrial construction dried up during this period. As a small fire protection…
What To Do In The Case Of A Fire Sprinkler Discharge
News,Blog,Fire Sprinkler Freeze Failures,Subrogation
February 8, 2012
According to the NFSA: Automatic fire sprinkler systems are widely considered the single most effective tool for protecting life and property from unfriendly fire. There has never been a multiple loss of life from fire among…
How to Keep Your Family Safe from the Leading Cause of Home Fires
February 7, 2012
Home cooking related fires continue to be a leading cause of fire loss within the United States. In the November 2011 NFPA report, Home Fires Involving Cooking Equipment, Marty Ahrens found that between the years of 2005…
How To Prevent Fire Sprinkler Freeze Failures
News,Blog,Fire Sprinkler Freeze Failures
February 1, 2012
Ideally, all sprinkler systems would be properly designed and installed for their environment. Dry sprinkler systems would properly slope in order to drain and wet systems would be properly insulated in areas that drop below…
Fire Sprinkler Freeze Failures
News,Blog,Fire Sprinkler Freeze Failures
January 25, 2012
The fire sprinkler industry takes many precautions to ensure that accidental leakage does not occur. However, if an automatic sprinkler has discharged water in the clear absence of a fire, an investigation should be undertaken…
Code Consulting Services Save Client $1.8 Million in Unnecessary Fire Safety Modifications
News,Blog,Hazard & Risk Assessment,Success Stories,Code Analysis
January 17, 2012
A tire manufacturing company with a distribution facility located in the State of Texas recently contacted Harrington Group for code consulting assistance to address concerns raised by the city’s fire department. The fire…
AHJ Concessions With Hard Deadlines
News,Blog,Life Safety Audits,AHJ Negotiations,Code Analysis,Fire Modeling
December 29, 2011
Projects don’t always go as planned. Sometimes, they require last minute changes or approvals that were unforeseeable in the planning stages. In the tough times when meeting a deadline is critical, you find out who you can rely…
Building To Last
News,Blog,HGI Development & Strategies
December 21, 2011
"What do we stand for and why do we exist?" This should never change. And then feel free to change everything else - Built To Last By the mid-90’s, we were steadily growing and saw a need to create new business management…
Integrity by Choice
News,Blog,HGI Development & Strategies
December 13, 2011
Prior to founding Harrington Group in 1986, I had the realization that there were many other companies in the engineering/consulting industry not behaving ethically. They would tell clients one thing while behaving completely…
Tips for Keeping Loved Ones Safe from Fire During the Holidays
December 8, 2011
As the holidays are rapidly approaching, Harrington Group would like to remind everyone that while decorations are festive and beautiful, if not managed properly, they can also be very dangerous and pose increased fire risk.…
How to Save Construction Costs Without Compromising Fire Safety
News,Blog,System Design,Fire Modeling
December 1, 2011
Last week’s blog, What If You Did Have A Fire Protection Engineer?, discussed how building owners, developers, architects, and project team engineers do not normally include a fire protection engineer early in the…
What If You Did Have A Fire Protection Engineer?
News,Blog,Performance-Based Design
November 23, 2011
This story is a continuation from What If You Didn’t Have A Fire Protection Engineer? If you haven’t read it, we suggest you find out how an AHJ’s code interpretation could have a costly impact on a new building project. In…