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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...

Our future is safer with sprinklers

The issue of fire safety in commercial buildings is once again being brought into sharp focus with the release of a preliminary report by the Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service (HFRS) following...

Only 15% of new schools built with sprinkler systems

Of the 673 new schools built and open under the government’s flagship school programme, only 105 were fitted with sprinklers.  With hundreds of schools in the UK having a fire each year, this...