Passive Fire Products Blog
Published: 11/09/2018
Passive fire protection (PFP) is an important component of any fire safety strategy.It plays a vital, and increasingly significant, role in safeguarding people, as well as limiting...
Published: 17/08/2018
Fire protection in buildings affords occupants time to escape and the emergency services the opportunity to access the area to extinguish the fire. However, research – and indeed...
Published: 09/08/2018
Fire doors from 5 suppliers have now been identified as failing to meet requisite fire performance standard following an on-going investigation by MHCLG.Fire doors from 5 suppliers...
Published: 09/07/2018
The BBC reports that the housing charity is backing a private members' bill which would change the law to give renters more rights to force landlords to make sure properties are sa...
Published: 18/06/2018
A total of 4,000 fire doors in all social housing across the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea – where the Grenfell Tower tragedy took place last year – will be replaced ...
Published: 03/05/2018
Tall buildings present fire safety issues that don’t affect other structures. For instance, high structures are beyond the reach of ladders preventing exterior rescues from ladde...
Published: 20/04/2018
Other safety failings as well as faulty cladding found17 APRIL 2018 FIRE ENGINEERING FIRE RISK ASSESSMENTThe Grenfell Tower fire, which claimed 71 lives, would not have spread if t...
Published: 02/04/2018
Multi-sensor detector research to make waves in industry - UPDATE: briefing paper now availableResearch undertaken by the Building Research Establishment in association with the FI...
Published: 29/03/2018
ASSA ABLOY Security Doors, a UK division of global door opening solutions company, ASSA ABLOY, has launched a white paper focusing on the critical subject of fire door safety.The w...
Published: 19/03/2018
A complete fire doorset recovered from the lower floors at Grenfell Tower have been tested - and have failed. They were supposed to be 30 minute fire rated but only lasted 15.It ha...
Published: 19/03/2018
Premier Guarantee’s Facades Technical Standards Director, Clive Everett, answers the most frequently asked questions about fire in buildings and cavity barriers in external walls...
Published: 08/03/2018
The Association for Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP) is launching a passive fire protection training programme – the first of its kind in the UK and Ireland – during April 201...
