The use of the correct type of distribution boards under amendment 1 of the changes to BS 7671 and the forthcoming publication of amendment 2 for high rise residential buildings and, the use or not of AFDD within the distribution board is urgently needed, confusion either causes mistakes or allows unscrupulous contractors to swerve the…
A flat fire on Wellington Way in Bow is believed to have been accidental and caused by the failure of a lithium-ion battery for an e-bike that had been on charge.
Care home, Elder Healthcare, which runs on the Isle of Man, has been fined £46,000 for health and safety breaches after a 95-year-old died in a fire in 2019.
The head of Avon Fire Authority has branded e-scooters a “fire risk” following a warehouse blaze involving hundreds of Voi vehicles. Read the full article on the BristolLive website >
With the relaxation of the covid restrictions people will soon be looking forward to holidays the Airbnb offerings will come to the fore. What is often overlooked here and as a result of the radar of the normal fire and life safety conversations is that Airbnb sites are outside of planning rules and conventional hotel…
Following my attendance and presentation on BS 8629 to the IFSM at Milton Keynes Football Stadium, I was presented with the plaque by chairman Bob Doherty.
If you have, or are considering an offer from a contractor to add solar panels – PV – to offset the costs of your energy use then consider the following in terms of both your fire risk assessment and insurance provision for the building, the same applies if this is for a client site where…
Have you given thought as to the protection of or possible removal of irreplaceable or priceless artefacts and items of high/extreme value from your building in the event of a fire.
As we will all know, the media frenzy post the Grenfell fire put everything within the life safety market under the microscope, the lack of mandatory requirements made it easy for substandard and non-compliant work to be provided without the client/customer being any the wiser.
Permission to build a 51-storey skyscraper with a single fire escape for more than 400 flats is expected to be granted on Thursday, in a move safety campaigners described as “scary”. Read the full article on The Guardian website >