Tom Roche, Secretary of the Business Sprinkler Alliance In early April, when industrial fires broke out in two different locations, they both had the same devastating outcome. On the 10th April, a fire started in a furniture factory in County...
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BSA makes a stand at FIREX 2019
28 March 2019
The Business Sprinkler Alliance (BSA) has announced it is a proud supporter of FIREX International 2019, Europe’s leading fire safety event which is taking place at the ExCel...
Ocado Warehouse Fire: Statement from the Business Sprinkler Alliance
15 February 2019
The recent fire at the Ocado Warehouse in Andover, Hampshire is clearly a significant and complex one. We understand that an automatic sprinkler system in combination with the...
Massive fire at self-storage warehouse impacts hundreds of customers
10 January 2019
A fire that engulfed a four-storey self-storage warehouse in Croydon on New Year’s Eve, destroying 1198 rented units, has once again brought into sharp focus the wider impact...
Sprinkler Design Report achieves CPD Certification
11 October 2018
An independent sprinkler design report, which aims to provide those involved in the design and construction supply chain with useful and helpful information on the design implications of...
BSA welcomes calls from London Fire Brigade for sprinklers to be mandatory in new build schools
22 August 2018
The Business Sprinkler Alliance (BSA) has welcomed calls from the London Fire Brigade (LFB) for mandatory sprinklers in all new build schools, after new figures show that fires...
BSA to participate in Building Magazine regulation debate
17 April 2018
The Business Sprinkler Alliance (BSA) will be participating in a question time panel debate on the future of the UK Building Regulations. Entitled ‘The Future of Building Regulations...
New warehouse destroyed by blaze had no sprinklers
26 March 2018
A recently-opened unsprinklered warehouse in Daventry is being demolished and will be rebuilt following a devastating fire in the early hours of March 12th. Despite more than 50...
#ThinkSprinkler – The benefits of sprinkler systems
12 March 2018
Fire sprinklers provide automatic and immediate onsite protection. To make an informed choice, it is critical that organisations understand the risks and consider the benefits that fire sprinklers...
A lesson in sprinklers
8 February 2018
The newly rebuilt Academy Selsey will not have sprinklers installed, the trust that runs it has confirmed. With hundreds of schools in the UK having a fire each...
Sprinkler system suppresses fire in Somerset car port following arson attack
1 February 2018
After a car was set alight in an arson attack in Chard, an automatic sprinkler system activated and suppressed the fire in a car port area, stopping it...