We announced recently that we were working on a healthcare project in Wales. We’ll shortly be supplying a fire rated curtain wall screen and double doors for the £350 million Grange University Hospital, in Llanfrechfa, near Cwmbran. It’s one of the largest NHS projects ever seen in Wales, and will admit its first patients in […]
fire safety
Fire care in care homes
Planning Care Homes Fire Safety Chris Peters, our Chief Design Manager, concludes his two-part look at fire safety in care homes. In the first part of this article on fire safety in care homes, I made the point that they’re more common than we imagine. Every year in the UK, there are between 800 and […]
A history of safety
Jane Embury, director, concludes her backward look at the history of building fire regulations. In the first part of my gallop through the history of fire safety standards, I said that the first fire regulations were made by William the Conqueror in the 11th century. He decreed that all hearth fires should be extinguished at […]
From curfew to modern regulation
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 […]
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 […]
