In the first part of this article I wrote that some contractors were reducing integrity/insulation advanced glazing from 60 to 30 minutes. Some, indeed, are specifying for 30 minutes of integrity only. This means that the fire will be contained, but not the radiant heat. In a serious fire, that heat transfer could set off […]
News & Updates
Time to evacuate
In a two-part article, Denis Wright, our chairman, looks at a worrying trend to compromise fire safety standards. The International Technical Committee for the Prevention and Extinction of Fire (CTIF) estimates that the annual cost of fire damage adds up to 1% of international GDP or €400 billion. But in the UK, and across much […]
Wrightstyle pledges support
Next month (23rd to 29th September) is Fire Door Safety Week, and we’ve already pledged our support. The initiative aims to raise awareness of the critical importance of fire doors. That includes specific issues such as poor installation and maintenance. Those are issues about which we also have concerns. For example, we’ve raised issues of […]
Building towards the stars
Last week I looked at one striking difference between east – west architecture. In Asia and the Middle East, architecture has gone vertical, with the tallest still being the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, at 828 metres. The world’s other top ten tallest buildings are in Shanghai, Mecca, Shenzen, Seoul, Guangzhou, Beijing, Taipei and Shanghai. The […]
East, west
Architecture creates cityscapes, shaping our towns and cities so that they reflect our corporate and civic aspirations. It’s a design approach that interprets the past to create new buildings with contemporary relevance. But within that philosophy of architecture as a mirror to the future is a new dynamic. Because there seems to be one not-so-subtle […]