Lessons we’ve learned from fires in the USA. Every major fire teaches its own lessons. We learn from catastrophe and it’s a pity that it can take loss of life to make buildings safer. This week, we’ll look at five major fires in the USA. We’ve written about them separately before, but never in […]
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Not Brexit, architecture
In the first of a two-part article on civic architecture, Jane Embury casts an eye towards the upcoming general election. In the UK, we’re on the verge of a general election, following years of Brexit chaos. However, I don’t want to talk politics. Instead, I would like to talk architecture. While Brexit dominates the political […]
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 […]
Sick building, sick people
In the second of a two-part article on eye health in the workplace, Chris Peters, our chief design manager, looks at sick building syndrome and what the regulations say. In the first part of this article, I looked at how the modern office has changed. How, in particular, we no longer work on a horizontal […]
The Art of Design
Our business at Wrightstyle is the design, fabrication and installation of high-performance steel framing systems. It’s a complicated process that involves skilled and experienced people at every stage of every contract. The first stage involves us working with the architect or main contractor to define what’s required and the level of protection. That can be […]
