A first floor concrete walkway which forms part of a compartment floor between a row of shops below and a row of two-storey flats above can be considered an adequate, sole means of escape, the secretary of state has determined.
A steel glazing company is warning that glazed doors, screens and facades are being inspected and passed as fire resistant when in fact they offer little protection.
Aspirating systems have been fitted to provide early detection of fire in lift shafts at London’s Gatwick airport. The ICAM systems from Xtralis were installed by Eurofyre.
Current laws and regulations are generally sufficient, but they are not properly understood, complied with and enforced, an inquiry into building fire safety heard last week.
Government action on selecting competent people to carry out fire risk assessments came a step closer this week when officials from the Communities and Local Government (CLG) department said they were urgently considering a quality scheme for risk assessors.
Beam detection and air sampling systems are among a range of fire safety equipment installed at the new 280,000 ft2 John Lewis store in the St David's shopping centre in Cardiff.
Open plan flats with a sprinkler system and enhanced detection to LD1 can provide a level of safety at least as good as a similar Approved Document B compliant design, a new study reveals.
