fire-proofing

Purchasing cheap fire-proofing materials from an unknown company using an unqualified lab certification even when known and safe products were available from reliable suppliers like 3M -- to save trivial sums of money.

Carl Pope: Why They Don't -- and Can't -- Get It Right Carl Pope 2011

The plumbing, wiring, ducts, air conditioning and sound- and fire-proofing had to be inserted in a landmark building that, because of its fame and quality, was scarcely touchable.

Gothic Renaissance in London Colin Amery 2011

Purchasing cheap fire-proofing materials from an unknown company using an unqualified lab certification even when known and safe products were available from reliable suppliers like 3M -- to save trivial sums of money.

Carl Pope: Why They Don't -- and Can't -- Get It Right Carl Pope 2011

The fire-proofing foam that covered the steel contained asbestos.

Think Progress » Bachmann’s Plan: To Deal With Debt, We Must ‘Wean Everybody’ Off Social Security, Medicare 2010

In the case of asbestos, natural degradation of asbestos-containing materials over time caused the release of fibers, and the widespread use of asbestos in insulating and fire-proofing materials made the risk of exposure very high.

Nanohazard Redux 2008

Grace filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April 2001 mainly due to asbestos personal-injury liability related to fire-proofing material and other products it manufactured.

W.R. Grace to Start Trust 2008

Grace filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2001, mainly due to asbestos liabilities related to fire-proofing material and other products it manufactured.

W.R. Grace 2008

The planes, more likely, just knocked off the fire-proofing, and allowed the immediate and intense fire to do what we put the fire-proofing there to prevent – weaken the steel.

Think Progress » Hoekstra Pushed For Publication of Sensitive Nuclear Documents, Blames New York Times, IAEA 2006

He knew the means of fire-proofing buildings and the relation of insurance-rates to fire-proofing, but he did not know how many firemen there were in the city, how they were trained and paid, or how complete their apparatus.

Babbit 2004

The judge said it's up to these plaintiffs to prove that there were inadequate evacuation procedures, for example, at the World Trade Center, inadequate fire-proofing.

CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2003 2003