BY FRANCIS L. BRANNIGAN,SFPE (FELLOW)
Editor’s note: For further reference, consult Building Construction for the Fire Service, Third Edition (BCFS3). Page numbers, where applicable, are included after the caption.
▲ Row buildings usually have a common cockloft and, in older buildings, brick nogging in the party walls, a naïve attempt at a fire barrier. The brick nogging often has many gaps through which fire can pass, and there is no protection of common floor voids. We think of neighboring units as exposures, but to the fire, the building is all one structure.
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