Jane Embury is marketing director at Wrightstyle, the advanced glazing systems supplier. She points out the USA has a National Arson Awareness Week, this year in May, and suggests that we should follow suit. It’s a crime that we tend not to think about because, we assume, it’s relatively rare and could never happen to […]
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Smithfield fire remembered
The Smithfield fire caused the deaths of two London firefighters, and changed policies on breathing apparatus. Jane Embury, Wrightstyle’s marketing director, takes a look back at this tragic fire. It’s a fire that took place sixty years ago in London’s main meat market and cost two firefighters their lives. The Smithfield fire burned for three […]
Wrightstyle and hospital fire safety
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 […]
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, […]
