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 […]
advanced glass
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
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 and London. In London alone […]
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 […]
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 […]
