We recently advised companies on the need to look again at their fire risk assessment as lockdown regulations begin to ease. Those assessments may be based on having a full complement of staff, many of whom might now be working in shift patterns or from home. That in turn may impact on fire-trained staff being […]
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Saving the bacon without fire safety measures
Our business at Wrightstyle is to supply advanced glazing systems that protect life and property in the event of fire. Our systems are also used as acoustic barriers or to provide additional safety when high wind loading is a design requirement. For example, we’ve supplied systems to a banking giant in Hong Kong, a typhoon […]
Wrightstyle in Bristol project
Wrightstyle has been appointed to enhance fire safety on a 1950s social housing block in Bristol. Spencer Norton House in the Redcliff Estate was conceived as one of the City Council’s post-war neighbourhood units. It’s in an older part of the city. The major project is to provide a protected escape route for the 10-storey […]
Deliberate and malicious
Chris Peters, chief design manager, looks at the impact of arson in the UK I wrote recently about arson in schools, and how it’s an issue that is more common than many people suppose. Indeed, in England alone, there are about 700 school fires a year. Most attacks are carried out by children and the great majority of […]
Solving noise pollution
Chris Peters, chief design manager, looks at how glass can solve noise pollution by absorbing sound. In our increasingly urbanised world, fewer and fewer of us are able to enjoy the sound of silence. Noise pollution, sometimes known as environmental noise, is one of the great irritants of the modern world. In the UK, noise […]
