11 January 2021
By Iain Cox, Chair of the Business Sprinkler Alliance A recent Financial Times article, written by the Governor of Denmark’s National Bank Lars Rohde, highlighted the fact that a bank’s capital buffer should work much like a sprinkler system. In...
5 February 2019
Two supermarket kitchen fires, two very different outcomes. In November 2018, a chip pan fire that spread throughout a Morrisons supermarket in Folkestone caused the roof to collapse...
8 January 2019
By Tom Roche, Secretary of the Business Sprinkler Alliance News of the decision to review the Building Regulations fire safety guidance Approved Document B (ADB) is welcomed by...
21 December 2018
Iain Cox, Chairman of the Business Sprinkler Alliance Following the announcement this week by the Minister of Housing, Government, Communities and Local Government to implement the Hackitt Review...
1 November 2018
Iain Cox, Chairman of the Business Sprinkler Alliance The Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) conference earlier this month provided plenty to consider on what needs to change...
10 September 2018
Summer has ended and September has begun, meaning it is back-to-school week for all children across the UK. Sadly, this won’t be the case for pupils at Roding...
29 June 2018
The catastrophic fire at the historic and world-renowned Glasgow School of Art (GSoA) on the 15th June is sadly another sharp reminder of the devastating impact of fires....
22 June 2018
By Tom Roche, Secretary of the Business Sprinkler Alliance Sprinklers do not work. It’s a statement that I have just read and I find myself asking myself ‘really...
15 May 2018
The Business Sprinkler Alliance (BSA) participated in a lively and well-attended question time panel debate last night on the future of the UK Building Regulations. Entitled ‘The Future...
24 April 2018
Dame Judith Hackitt’s interim report, published on 18th December 2017, highlighted the deep-seated and troubling failures in fire protection and safety in the built environment; adding to the...
19 April 2018
One of the most efficient and effective ways to reduce the impact of fire is through measures which ensure that when it starts it is quickly extinguished so...