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Failure to review ADB poses significant risk to property and life

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...

Are we pursuing energy efficiency rather than sustainability?

By Iain Cox – Chairman of the Business Sprinkler Alliance

Back in October, I attended the Fire Sector Summit where I listened to a presentation on fire and sustainability. The session...

Sprinkler Week starts and ends with a major building fire – Why don’t we learn?

This week is Sprinkler Week and it is ironic that the week starts with the announcement of a massive fire in Daventry that saw the total destruction of a 400,000 square foot warehouse – a...

Building Regulations Review – Are we just going to be papering over the cracks?

While the tragedy at Grenfell last year offered us a sharp reminder of the devastating effect that fire can have, it also starkly highlighted the ambiguity within our whole system of fire...