We recently advised companies on the need to look again at their fire risk assessment as lockdown regulations begin to ease. Those assessments may be based on having a full complement of staff, many of whom might now be working in shift patterns or from home. That in turn may impact on fire-trained staff being […]
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Unlocking Lockdown
The government has been advising on measures to unlock the lockdown, providing a welcome boost to the economy. Already shops are opening with pubs and cinemas to follow, ushering a new kind of normal to our everyday lives. But the new normal is also about other places of work because offices, factories and warehouses also […]
Saving the bacon without fire safety measures
Our business at Wrightstyle is to supply advanced glazing systems that protect life and property in the event of fire. Our systems are also used as acoustic barriers or to provide additional safety when high wind loading is a design requirement. For example, we’ve supplied systems to a banking giant in Hong Kong, a typhoon […]
Arson in schools
Chris Peters, chief design manager, looks at arson in schools and some simple steps to minimise risk and damage. Last November fire badly damaged Peebles High School in the Scottish Borders. At its height, some 70 firefighters worked to contain the blaze. However, the good news is that pupils will start to return to their […]
Not Brexit, architecture
In the first of a two-part article on civic architecture, Jane Embury casts an eye towards the upcoming general election. In the UK, we’re on the verge of a general election, following years of Brexit chaos. However, I don’t want to talk politics. Instead, I would like to talk architecture. While Brexit dominates the political […]
