Lee Coates, the company’s technical director, looks at fire training in the build up to Christmas. Business Safety Week The UK Chief Fire Officers Association designated the second week of September as Business Safety Week. The initiative was to build on the goals set out in the association’s Business Safety Strategy that aims to reduce […]
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Glass recycling
Denis Wright, the company’s chairman, says that glass is the most sustainable of building materials. Wrightstyle takes a look at glass recycling. Glass In Everything Glass is ubiquitous. In commercial buildings, it can form a major part of the external envelope. And for all buildings, as Le Corbusier remarked, the history of architecture is the […]
Light and glass in modern architecture
Light and glass go hand in hand. Most building materials have weight and mass, whether concrete, a brick or a length of structural steel. There is, however, one building material that has neither weight nor mass. Light in Architecture The Greeks called it Helios, the Romans Sol and, despite forming over 98% of the solar […]
Escaping from prison fires
Escaping from prison fires. Wrightstyle takes a look at the dilemmas of planning escape routes in buildings designed to stop escapes! When fire breaks out in a highly-populated building, the first priority is to ensure occupant safety, normally by quick evacuation. But what happens when the whole purpose of that building is to prevent people […]
Austerity and public building design
Austerity and Public Building Design Austerity and public building design is a thorny subject. Though austerity has been shared across households and every business sector, it has fallen particularly hard on public infrastructure expenditure. According to the National Audit Office, capital expenditure stood at £57 billion in 2009/10, falling to £42 billion in 2013/14. However, […]
