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Life Safety for Multi-Family Homes
“Non-Combustible Concrete Construction – Life Safety for Multi-Family Homes”
Covers statistics and examples from actual fires in elderly, student and multi-family housing.  Explains balanced design. 
A report by Portland Cement Association

DCA4
“Design for Code Acceptance 4 - Component Additive Method (CAM) for Calculating
and Demonstrating Assembly Fire Endurance”
A report by the American Forest & Paper Association, 2004

Old Buckingham Station Apartment Complex Fire
“Old Buckingham Station Apartment Complex Fire -
Fireground Operations and Tactics, Technical Reports, Chesterfield, Virginia, May 19, 1995”

Wall Assemblies
“NCMA Fires at Gypsum Wall Assemblies and ASTM E 119”
This article was published in the July 2002 edition of the NCMA Engineering and Research Report

Performance of Masonry at the World Trade Center
“Performance of Masonry at the World Trade Center"