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 […]
curtain walling
Check mate
Over the past few weeks we’ve been turning the spotlight on some individual members of Wrightstyle staff. Because any company is only as good as the people who work for it. And we like to think that every one of our team here at Wrightstyle is special in their own way. This week we’re featuring […]
Steel Appeal
Steel Appeal – Fire Dynamics Taming fire generally involves the removal of heat, writes Jane Embury, our marketing director. In most cases that means dousing it with water. That water, of course, comes from either the building’s own sprinkler system or the fire service. Without energy in the form of heat, the fire cannot heat […]
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 […]
Eye health
Workplace Eye Health. Light in the workplace. In the creation, it’s what God made first. You can see it but can’t feel or touch it. Prosaically, it’s radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Us humans see it through our eyes, which are clever photon detectors tuned to observe the visible spectrum. As […]