Last Friday, a major fire broke out in student accommodation in Bolton. It was tackled by 200 firefighters and took more than nine hours to put out. Worse, the fire started in the late evening and, according to media reports, the fire alarm may not have activated correctly. Those who did hear the alarm weren’t […]
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The Wrightstyle Challenge
Chris Peters, our Chief Design Manager, looks at how far advanced glazing systems have come. We think of fires as uncommon events, but they’re not as uncommon as you might guess. Because fire and rescue services attended 573,221 incidents in the year to June 2019. This was a 2% increase compared with the previous year. […]
We work for WeWork
Fully glazed fire rated doors. We’ve just completed a major contact for WeWork, which provides private and shared office space across the world. We supplied some £100,000 of wet fill EI30 double doors, and single doors, for their new London property close to Waterloo Station. In the UK, WeWork has offices to rent in Edinburgh, Manchester […]
Wrightstyle goes underground
Wrightstyle has been appointed to design, supply and install fire rated screens to the new Tube station at Battersea Power Station. The project is part of the Northern Line Extension. The new station will serve a mixed-use redevelopment of the iconic old power station. It will comprise shops, restaurants, bars, offices and residential accommodation, as […]
Remember, remember
Tim Kempster, our managing director, casts a backward glance at the UK’s most infamous plot. Today we celebrate Guy Fawkes Night or Bonfire Night. It’s the date in 1605 when Guy Fawkes was apprehended while guarding explosives that he and his co-conspirators had hidden under the House of Lords. It was a plot to kill […]
