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 […]
escape routes
shopping centre fires
In a two-part article, Jane Embury, marketing director, looks at shopping centres fire safety. We don’t often think about fire breaking out in our local shopping centre. However, let’s remember that in July a fire engulfed a shopping centre in Walthamstow, east London. And just last month, a serious fire broke out in a shopping […]
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 […]
Propping open fire doors
We’ve already pledged our support for Fire Door Safety Week. That takes place in the last week of next month, and is to raise awareness of the importance of fire doors. It’s estimated that about three million new fire doors are installed every year in the UK. But they’re often incorrectly specified, installed and maintained, […]