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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Designing safer airports
Tim Kempster, managing director, in the first of a two-part article, looks at airport security and the role of glazing systems. The threat of terrorist attack remains very real, not least at airports. Let’s not forget the 2016 attack at Brussels Airport that killed some 30 people. Or the Istanbul airport attack in the same […]
Not starting to evacuate
In the first part of this article I wrote that some contractors were reducing integrity/insulation advanced glazing from 60 to 30 minutes. Some, indeed, are specifying for 30 minutes of integrity only. This means that the fire will be contained, but not the radiant heat. In a serious fire, that heat transfer could set off […]
We supply to Nigerian Stock Exchange
We’ve just supplied fire rated curtain walling for the redevelopment of the Nigerian Stock Exchange in Lagos. The contract for DBH Solutions was for the company’s SR60 system, providing EI120 performance, for one of Nigeria’s most important economic and financial centres. The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) services the largest economy in Africa and is championing […]
Advanced window systems for prestigious London project
Wrightstyle, the leading supplier of steel and aluminium glazing systems, is supplying advanced window systems for a prestigious mixed use development in central London. The project at 71-77 Wigmore Street consists of four buildings, whose façades are largely being retained but with the interiors demolished and reconstructed to form basement and ground floor retail space […]
