Following a ground-breaking fire test, one of the UK’s leading advanced glazing suppliers now offers a system with a new level of fire safety. The Wrightstyle test was on the company’s WSL SR60 curtain wall framing system combined with SCHOTT PYRANOVA® 120 glass. Wrightstyle carried out the test at WarringtonFire to achieve dual-directional fire safety. Traditionally, advanced glazing systems have […]
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Bidding low
Jane Embury, director, looks at the implications of low bids Over recent weeks, the government has introduced a number of initiatives in the construction sector. Most have been about safety, which we have welcomed, and creating a chain of responsibility to safeguard good practices and products. Those changes may have come about because off the […]
Safety and quality
Arran Wright is Wrightstyle’s workshop manager in charge of our fabrication team and installation training. We recently welcomed news that the government is to create a new regulator to monitor the safety of construction products. Overdue, maybe, and comes in response to evidence of poor practice by some manufacturers. The new regulator will have sweeping […]
Supply chain quality
Jane Embury, director, reflects on a CIOB campaign to embed quality Quality has once again been in the news this month. The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has warned companies to go beyond the bare minimum of quality. It wants all companies involved in the built environment to seek out the highest possible standards. Indeed, […]
The importance of our recent fire test
Jane Embury explains the significance of our fire test Fire can start anywhere, often from the smallest of causes. But many specifiers don’t pay enough attention to the fact that a fire can start on either side of a fire-rated glazing system. In other words, the glazing system will provide protection, but only in one […]
