Jane Embury, our marketing director, looks at fire safety in healthcare facilities. We recently completed a project at Guy’s Hospital in London, supplying fire-rated windows and curtain walling. We’ve also worked on other healthcare projects across the UK, as well as internationally in Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong. In each case, our systems either robustly […]
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Remembering the King’s Cross disaster thirty years on
Wrightstyle supplied fire-rated systems to the iconic King’s Cross redevelopment in London, both to the station itself and surrounding projects. Wrightstyle’s managing director, Tim Kempster, remembers events of 30 years ago. The term “codifying by disaster” has a long and dishonourable history. It’s the term used to to describe how advances in safety regulations […]
Guy Fawkes and cock and bull
Wrightstyle, the leading UK steel glazing company, supplies its bomb and fire-rated systems internationally. Jane Embury, the company’s marketing director, takes an oblique look at how far glass and glazing has come in recent years. We live in a world full of cock and bull stories, although the popular origin of the phrase is itself…well, […]
Wrightstyle and fire risk in tall buildings
Post-Grenfell, Tim Kempster, our managing director, looks at fire safety in tall buildings. The Grenfell Tower disaster will cast a long shadow for many years to come, helping to define official attitudes to social housing and the imperative of fire safety in tall buildings. While it’s too early to point fingers, it seems apparent that […]
Wrightstyle meets the family from hell
By Tim Kempster, managing director The catastrophe that has visited the Caribbean and parts of the eastern seaboard of the USA has been appalling to watch. There have been 13 named tropical storms this year, and the hurricane season doesn’t end until November. Of those, eight have been hurricanes and four of them were major […]
