All Blogs, East Anglia, East Midlands, Fire Doors, Grenfell Tower, Industry News, Landlords & HMO, London, Passive Fire Protection, South, West Midlands
Kensington and Chelsea council voted on 6 June to replace all fire doors across the borough. This comes a year after the fire that destroyed Grenfell Tower and took the lives of 71 people. The council confirmed that they will replace a total of 4,000 fire doors at a...
All Blogs, East Anglia, East Midlands, Grenfell Tower, Industry News, London, South, West Midlands
The Grenfell fire was back in the news again with the release of a long-awaited review into UK building regulations on Thursday 17 May. Regulations governing fire safety were heavily criticised following the tragedy. Dame Judith Hackitt authored the report which...
All Blogs, East Anglia, East Midlands, Grenfell Tower, Industry News, London, South, West Midlands
In this, the third of our blogs in the Grenfell Tower series, we review the latest market survey from the Fire Industry Association (FIA). As a snapshot of current trends, it highlighted the impact that both the Grenfell disaster and Brexit negotiations are having on...
All Blogs, BAFE, Business, Fire Risk Assessment, Industry News, Landlords & HMO, Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, Third Party Accreditation
Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 Since the introduction of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 fire certificates are no longer issued. Instead onus falls onto the ‘responsible person’ to take appropriate action to prevent fire and protect...
All Blogs, Hospitals, Industry News, Prosecutions
In April this year it was reported by Irish News that Fire crews in Northern Ireland were called out a total of 68 times in the last year to Craigavon Area Hospital, 56 of which turned out to be false alarms. Just 12 calls turned out to be genuine calls, including...
