One of the key components of fire safety in high-rise buildings is the reliability of the fire protection systems and features. We tend to use the terms reliability, redundancy and resilience interchangeably and in fact they are all aspects of…
Improving the fire performance of external cladding systems
Following numerous and significant fires in the recent past, no one doubts the importance and critical nature of the fire protection of high rise building external cladding systems. Such cladding systems are often referred to as rainscreen or curtain wall…
UAE: Improving fire safety on construction sites
Here Paul Henson, Sales and Marketing Director at Ramtech Electronics, looks at why Dubai Civil Defence’s new Fire and Fire Safety Code has the ability to transform construction sites for the better. Fire safety on construction sites has always been…
Raising standards in steel structures
As new modern building design for steel structures emerges with the use of new materials and methods, the application of best practice in the supply chain has never been more important. Bob Glendenning of Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings Europe,…