THE FIRE Protection Association (FPA) has submitted responses to three recent Government consultations covering several key fire safety-related topics: fire risk assessors, training and domestic upholstered furniture. [Read More]

CELEBRATED WORLDWIDE for its starring role serving Piz Gloria, Blofeld’s mountaintop lair in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, the Stechelberg–Mürren–Birg-Schilthorn cable car line has recently undergone an £84 million redevelopment underpinned by fire protection from Kentec. [Read More]

THE INSTITUTION of Fire Engineers (IFE) is seeking to make its members – and, indeed, other professionals operating in the fire safety sector – fully aware of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s (MHCLG) call for evidence that will assist in shaping the built environment strategy. [Read More]

THE UNIVERSITY of West London is benefiting from enhanced fire safety visibility and streamlined system management thanks to the integration of the AdvancedLive solution across multiple campuses. [Read More]

TWO MANAGERS of a property in Windsor have been fined and received suspended prison sentences following a successful prosecution brought forward by the Royal Berkshire Fire Authority. [Read More]

TWO DECADES ago, writes Tom Roche, a piece of regulatory guidance quietly set a ceiling – quite literally – on what a warehouse could be without sprinklers. That 18-metre height limit in Approved Document B was, at the time, an outer boundary to signal a building that was going taller than perhaps the norm. Now, warehouses look very different. Has our thinking about protecting them from fire kept pace? [Read More]

ORGANISER WESTERN Business Media has announced that the nominated charity partner for the 2026 edition of the Fire & Security Matters Awards – to be held at the Coventry Building Society Arena on 2 July – is The Joey Beauchamp Foundation. [Read More]

QUELFIRE, THE manufacturer and supplier of fire stopping solutions for service penetrations, has published guidance entitled Golden Principles for Designing Builder’s Work in Connection (BWIC) in order to support architects, designers, contractors and other industry professionals when considering fire stopping spacing requirements during the early stages of design. [Read More]