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Are we asking the right questions when it comes to fire risk?

A recent study (1) carried out by the Business Sprinkler Alliance confirmed that the uptake of fire safety sprinkler systems is low, with 68% of those interviewed having been involved in a...

When it comes to fire, are we looking at the bigger picture?

When you look at the built environment over the past 20 years, we have created many buildings that are not resilient to fire and we continue to build them. While the best approach to fire safety...

Nottingham Station fire: When will lessons be learned?

By Iain Cox, Chair of the Business Sprinkler Alliance

Despite Network Rail spending £60 million on the Nottingham Station refurbishment in 2014, the building had no sprinklers and the major...

Layers of safety: an approach that will make buildings resilient

Sadly, it comes as no surprise that two years after Grenfell, there are many high rise buildings still wrapped in similar cladding that fed that catastrophic fire.  As highlighted in a recent...