{"id":26073,"date":"2014-10-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buildingreports.flywheelsites.com\/security-systems-news-coverage-of-benchmark-report\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:28:58","slug":"security-systems-news-coverage-of-benchmark-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.buildingreports.com\/2014\/security-systems-news-coverage-of-benchmark-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire &#038; Life Safety Inspection Benchmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"block\">\n<p><em>The following is an excerpt from the October 7, 2014, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.securitysystemsnews.com\/\">Security Systems News<\/a><em> coverage of the 2014 Benchmark Report&#8217;s official release&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.securitysystemsnews.com\/staff\/SSN-Staff\">SSN Staff<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"background-color: initial;\">Tuesday, October 7, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SUWANEE, Ga.\u2014 BuildingReports, an inspection reporting services company, recently released its first benchmark report based on inspection data from more than 120 million fire and life safety devices. And the company plans to follow up with additional reports that provide a more detailed look at the data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe inaugural report is a 30,000-foot view of the inspection data and provides a solid foundation, but it\u2019s a foundation we\u2019ll build upon in quarterly addendums and annual reports moving forward,\u201d Jason Kronz, president and CTO of BuildingReports, which is based here, told Security Systems News.<\/p>\n<p>He said that among findings in the 2014 BuildingReports Fire &amp; Life Safety Inspection Benchmark Report was a confirmation of \u201cthe conventional wisdom of the industry, in that addressable systems appear to be much more reliable than non-addressable systems.<br \/>\nThe industry has believed that for many years, Kronz said, \u201cbut there really wasn\u2019t enough data to back it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The addressable systems&#8217; failure rate was 2.33 percent compared to 3.05 percent for non-addressable systems, a 25 percent difference. The addressable and conventional device sample was 46 million devices connected to one or the other of those two types of systems.<br \/>\nOne surprise finding of the report was that \u201cfor sprinkler systems, especially for NFPA 25 and 13 systems, we saw just a little over 5 percent of devices were failed because of improper signage,\u201d Kronz said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.securitysystemsnews.com\/article\/benchmark-report-fire-life-safety-device-inspection-data-released\">Read the Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>About BuildingReports<\/strong><br \/>\nBuilding-safety compliance is critical to service companies, building owners, and fire and safety officials charged with safeguarding occupants. BuildingReports\u2019 mobile and online inspection reporting tools enable inspectors to accurately gather data on fire and life safety devices\u2014ensuring these devices are working properly and meeting code requirements\u2014as well as identify necessary compliance actions through easily verifiable inspection reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from the October 7, 2014, Security Systems News coverage of the 2014 Benchmark Report&#8217;s official release&#8230; SSN Staff &#8211; Tuesday, October 7, 2014 SUWANEE, Ga.\u2014 BuildingReports, an inspection reporting services company, recently released its first benchmark report based on inspection data from more than 120 million fire and life safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fire &amp; 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