Life Safety

The G4S Fire and Security team has joined forces with award-winning building services contractor, Briggs & Forrester, on three significant real estate projects across the UK.

West End Gate, located on the Edgware Road in Marylebone, London, is a prestigious residential development comprising of eight buildings ranging from eight to 29 storeys. The development boasts modern architecture, efficient transport links, and state-of-the-art facilities.

Dorset County Hospital, an NHS Foundation Trust hospital in the county town of Dorchester in South West England, has successfully completed a comprehensive fire systems upgrade.

Tom Roche, Secretary of the Business Sprinkler Alliance (BSA), explains why careful allocation of fire service and water resources is required to protect commercial and industrial facilities from potentially devastating fires.

Cintec North America provides guidance on safeguarding against the risk of fire when buildings are being retrofitted, restored, or modernized following multiple emergencies in the United States and Europe in recent years.

Notts Golf Club, also known as Hollinwell, has enhanced its fire protection with the installation of over 100 wireless fire devices.

Edinburgh Leisure, Scotland's largest leisure trust, has selected Imtech Group business SPIE UK to deliver fire and security maintenance services under a 3-year contract following a competitive tender process.

Allegion UK has launched a new set of best practice guides on fire door safety for operators of commercial, education and healthcare environments.

New provisions of the 2022 Building Safety Act came into force in the United Kingdom on 1st April, including a duty for owners of high-rise buildings to keep the safety and standard of buildings under review and a duty to establish a system for sharing building safety information

Karen Trigg, business development manager, South East at Allegion UK, explains the mandatory fire door ('regulation 10') checks introduced for multi-occupied residential buildings by The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022.

Honeywell Building Technologies on why Advanced Emergency Responder Communication Enhancement Systems (ERCES) eliminate potential dead zones in commercial buildings to help first responders remain connected.

Iwona Hovenko, Real Estate Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, says the UK's largest homebuilders will be impacted disproportionately by new taxes to fix safety issues in apartment buildings following the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

A state of the art fire system has protected visitors and artwork during The Art of Banksy exhibition at a temporary venue in Media City, Manchester.

Baldwin Boxall has achieved UKCA certification for its VIGIL2 and VIGIL3 voice alarm products and systems.

Iain Cox, Chair of the Business Sprinkler Alliance (BSA), comments on a huge fire at a bus station in Slough to the west of London.

A new infographic from Abloy to mark Fire Door Safety Week in the UK shows a correlation between rising reports of serious fires and fatalities, and failed fire door inspections.

Wireless fire technology from Hyfire is protecting The House of the Binns, a historic house in West Lothian that is under care of the National Trust for Scotland.

In anticipation of Fire Door Safety Week (31st Oct - 4th Nov) Kirk Smith, Business Development Manager for Allegion UK, explains how neglecting fire doors can compromise fire safety procedures.

Evolution has launched a new dedicated Life Safety Systems division that builds on almost three decades of fire safety systems' expertise in the UK.

The Business Sprinkler Alliance (BSA) will be at the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) Annual Conference and Exhibition from 13-14th October at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales.