Fire Safety

Premier Technical Services Group Limited (PTSG) has acquired specialist fire safety company, Indepth Hygiene Services Ltd. Indepth’s core service offering includes fire damper maintenance and grease extract ductwork cleaning. The acquisition strengthens PTSG’s offering in its Fire solutions division and ...

Today (23 January 2023) the Fire Safety (England) Regulation 2022 comes into effect, putting greater emphasis on the importance of fire doors and fire safety instructions for multi-occupied high-rise buildings. The Hackitt Review, responsible for changing the regulatory landscape of ...

The Living Wall industry has launched a Best Practice Guide for designers, specifiers and architects to provide clarity on the latest National Building Regulations. On 1 June 2022 the government introduced a new framework to further strengthen and clarify building ...

With wide-ranging changes to fire safety starting to come into force from as soon as 23 January 2023, the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM) in partnership with PlanRadar has updated its Fire safety management good practice guide (GPG). Providing ...

The Association for Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP) announced the winners of its 2022 Passive Fire Protection Awards at an Awards Dinner at the Park Regis Hotel in Birmingham on 25 November. Chosen by an independent panel of judges, the winners ...

Conor Logan, Colt’s Technical Director, with a guide to maintaining aov (automatic opening vent) maintenance An ‘AOV’ or ‘Automatic Opening Vent’ is a smoke or fire vent that will open and close automatically when triggered by a control system to ...

One of the UK’s best known supermarket chains has chosen Patol Ltd and Securiton Aspirating Smoke Detection (ASD) to protect a significant investment in expanding the retailer’s online offering. Fulfilment Centres are the latest development designed to help revolutionise online ...

Bureau Veritas is urging landlords and facilities managers – particularly those responsible for large multi-occupancy buildings – to create a culture of fire door safety education and reporting to ensure utmost security for tenants. The call for action by the ...

ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions UK & Ireland and fire door manufacturer JELD-WEN have both released guidance to mark the start of Fire Door Safety Week (31 October – 4 November). Fire Door Guide ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions UK & Ireland is ...

The Association for Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP) has signed a series of agreements with the British Standards Institution (BSI), the national standards body of the UK. Under the agreements, the ASFP is able to offer British standards for sale at ...