Wrightstyle is completing work on six Crossrail stations, reflecting our expertise in railway fire safety in stations, with other recent completions across the UK, Dubai and Hong Kong. The final Crossrail element will be at Paddington station for which are fabricating bonded doors and screens. We also supplied a range of fire-rated doors, screens and […]
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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 […]
King’s Cross officially reopened with the Wrightstyle protection
Iconic King’s Cross Redevelopment The final stage of the £550 million redevelopment of London’s King’s Cross station has been completed, with the iconic station at the heart of a £2.2 billion regeneration of the surrounding district. King’s Cross Square, the 75,000 sq ft area to the front of the station, and which is larger than […]
A history of safety
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 […]
Refurbishing the past
We’re about to start on-site on a prestigious refurbishment project in London. Ebbark House is in historic Borough High Street. It’s being transformed into office space across its lower ground, ground and three upper floors. We’re delighted to be working on Ebbark House, given our refurbishment experience internationally. For example, we were involved in the […]
