Jane Embury, director, concludes her backward look at the history of building fire regulations. In the first part of my gallop through the history of fire safety standards, I said that the first fire regulations were made by William the Conqueror in the 11th century. He decreed that all hearth fires should be extinguished at […]
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From curfew to modern regulation
Jane Embury, our finance director, takes a two-part look at some milestones in fire regulation for buildings. We tend to think of fire safety as something relatively new. We think of it as a modern and enlightened concept that places a value on everybody’s life. Okay, it’s true that it was only in the 19th […]
Fire compartmentalisation
Tim Kempster, managing director, looks at fire compartmentalisation, in other words: keeping fire locked in. Fire remains a potent threat, despite advances in building design and construction and the enforcement of strict building regulations. Essentially, fire safety in commercial buildings is down to three things. First, an alarm system to detect and warn of the […]
Hotel fires
Jane Embury, director, takes a look at hotel fire safety. Arran Wright, our workshop and training manager, recently wrote about staying in a hotel in Scotland. The fire door in the corridor outside his room was propped open by, irony of ironies, a fire extinguisher. The psychology of fire is that it’s something that always […]
Regeneration through retail
In the second of her articles on shopping centres, Jane Embury, marketing director, looks at some landmark retail projects that we’ve been involved with. We think of shopping centres as being a modern phenomenon. But shopping centres go back to ancient Greece and Rome. In Greece, the shopping centre was a large open area called the […]
