Jane Embury, director, takes a look at hotel fire safety. Arran Wright, our workshop and training manager, recently wrote about staying in a hotel in Scotland. The fire door in the corridor outside his room was propped open by, irony of ironies, a fire extinguisher. The psychology of fire is that it’s something that always […]
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Wrightstyle and security glazing for retail safety
Security Glazing – Retail It’s approaching that time of year when shops and shopping centres will experience their busiest period, and when nobody in the retail sector can be complacent about security. It’s worth remembring that the outgoing Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said very recently that a terrorist attack like those seen this […]
Wrightstyle celebrates china anniversary
Wrightstyle is this month celebrating its twentieth anniversary. Over the past two decades, the Devizes-based company has supplied its advanced systems to virtually every part of the world. Going from the Americas to Australasia, and from Europe to the Middle East and Asia. This clearly underlines the highly specialist nature of its systems ranges. Wrightstyle […]
Glass recycling
Denis Wright, the company’s chairman, says that glass is the most sustainable of building materials. Wrightstyle takes a look at glass recycling. Glass In Everything Glass is ubiquitous. In commercial buildings, it can form a major part of the external envelope. And for all buildings, as Le Corbusier remarked, the history of architecture is the […]
Light and glass in modern architecture
Light and glass go hand in hand. Most building materials have weight and mass, whether concrete, a brick or a length of structural steel. There is, however, one building material that has neither weight nor mass. Light in Architecture The Greeks called it Helios, the Romans Sol and, despite forming over 98% of the solar […]
