Jane Embury, on behalf of Wrightstyle, wishes everyone Festive best wishes. It’s been a strange old year, and a year that all of us will be glad to see the back of. It’s been a year in which everything changed – from the way we work to how we socialise. It has been a year […]
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A bit of cheer for 2021
Jane Embury, director, gets into the Festive spirit by taking a positive peek ahead. It’s the season to be jolly, so let’s try to be a little bit jolly. For a start, according to consultants PWC, all sectors of the economy can expect a return to growth in 2021. This will be aided by the […]
Green agenda and fire safety
Paula Wilson, operations manager, warns that achieving net carbon zero in the built environment should also be about fire safety. All of us now recognise that we face a climate emergency, and that action is urgently needed. The government’s recent announcement of a £4 billion investment in a green agenda is therefore welcome. The funding […]
Endorsement for Building Safety Bill
Jane Embury, director, welcomes support for draft building safety legislation. As a company involved in fire safety, we’ve welcomed the draft Building Safety Bill. It will finally make building safety a legally-binding reality. The draft Bill aims to address issues of safety that followed the independent review by Dame Judith Hackitt. Her 2018 report, Building […]
Codifying for social safety
Jane Embury, director, welcomes a white paper on safety in social housing. Sometimes it takes a disaster in which lives are lost for building or fire regulations to change. Over the years it has come to be called ‘codifying by catastrophe’. It sometimes seems that it’s the only way in which improvements to public safety […]
