The performance and reliability of fire doors can be undone by inaccurate hardware installation. Karen Trigg of Allegion UK explains the significance of installer competence and how responsible persons should approach fire door hardware fittings to ensure lives aren’t put…
Fire doors in high-density housing – post Grenfell
The day after the Grenfell Tower tragedy I received a call from a seasoned public-sector fire-safety expert and they said: ‘There is more to this than the cladding you know… the fire doors!’ As it turns out, there was much…
FrameFit – the ideal solution for remediating fire doors that are non-compliant due to gaps – saving lives, time and budgets
FrameFit is a brand-new, innovative, fire-rated and fully tested system that solves a very common but serious problem with fire doors – excessive gaps between leaf and frame. Current legislation states that fire doors with gaps of over 4mm between…
Jeld-Wen launches new white paper to help inform fire door safety best practice ahead of new regulation
Seven in ten (70%)1 social housing tenants lack confidence in the fire safety of their home and two thirds (68%) do not feel the Government has done enough to improve fire safety over the past five years. Ahead of the…
Landlords and facilities managers must create culture of fire-safety reporting, asserts bureau veritas
New research released this week by the British Woodworking Federation (BWF), as part of its annual Fire Door Safety Week, found that a third (32%) of the British public would not report a problem with a fire door, potentially putting…
Trio of new fire-rated door sets launched by Promat UK
Passive fire-protection systems specialist Promat UK has developed two new steel-framed glazed door systems and a timber door set to provide specifiers with assured fire-safety solutions in domestic, public and commercial buildings. All three door sets are available in EI30…
Rhino Doors calls for increased awareness of fire safety in response to the Building Safety Act 2022
The UK’s leading manufacturer of engineered doors, Rhino Doors, is calling on architects and specifiers to consider the importance of installing higher-performance fire-door systems within residential and commercial developments across the country. In June of this year, the Government brought…
FPA develops new fire compartmentation and door survey technology
The FPA’s expert surveyors have been conducting comprehensive, non-destructive fire compartmentation surveys and delivering detailed reports for several years. We are delighted to announce that we have recently developed new technology to significantly improve the outputs for our customers. New…
UK Doorsets one of first to attain certification for security, fire & smoke control
UK Doorsets Ltd are one of the first Secured by Design member company to attain certification for security, fire & smoke control on their doorsets. Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative, has been a staunch campaigner…
Fire safety and ironmongery: hand in hand
Daniel May, Director at Consort Architectural Hardware explores the close relationship between fire safety and ironmongery and how compliance becomes compromised without essential hardware components. Unpredictable and untameable, fire is a beast that we can’t afford to ignore. It doesn’t…