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 […]
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A milestone fire test
Chris Peters, chief design manager, on a breakthrough fire test. Over the years, we have prided ourselves on our ability to understand changing market demands and innovate to meet those new requirements. For example, we were the first company internationally to successfully develop a round opening fire-rated window. More recently, we were the first company […]
Few top marks for school fire safety
Pete Hammond, senior estimator, looks at a report on fire safety in schools. A report from the insurance company Zurich Municipal has found that 480 English primary and secondary schools suffered a fire in 2019. That adds up to some 40 incidents every month. The statistics were compiled from a freedom of information request to UK […]
Hong Kong arts project
The Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA) is scheduled to reopen at the end of this month, following a four-year refurbishment. It was a project that we were closely involved with, supplying high specification internal screens and fire-resistant unlatched doors. Following the museum’s HK$ 934 million refurbishment, exhibition areas have been increased from about 7,000 square metres […]
Building safety and duty holder
Jane Embury, director of advanced glazing systems company Wrightstyle. Earlier this week we wrote about our support for the government’s proposed Building Safety Bill. For the first time, this would define a role for a duty holder, a key individual to be responsible for all aspects of building safety. This person would have responsibilities from […]
