DOOR GROUP, a division of ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions UK and Ireland, is calling for a higher calibre of fire door inspections to be carried out after research conducted by the British Woodworking Federation in parallel with Fire Door Safety Week 2023 found that one-third (ie 32%) of the British public would not report a problem with a fire door, in turn putting lives at risk.

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FIRE DOOR manufacturer Sentry Doors is celebrating a major milestone this year as its recent acquisition, Knowles, marks its 100th Anniversary, in turn affording Sentry Doors a combined heritage of over 130 years.

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YEOMAN SHIELD has operated in the construction and maintenance sectors for over 55 years now, duly supplying clients in key verticals including healthcare, education, retail and leisure with specialist fire door solutions and services.

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ALLEGION UK is set to unveil its new array of Briton ‘Fire Door Safety in Review’ guidance documents at The Fire Safety Event 2023, which runs from 25-27 April at the NEC in Birmingham.

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HURST DOORS has become one of just a handful of UK suppliers certified to produce a quality composite FD30s fire doorset with sidelights and fanlights. The company is now certified under the BM Trada UKCA marking scheme focused on external pedestrian fire-rated doorsets.

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FOLLOWING ON from Sentry Doors’ recent acquisition of the E. & S. W. Knowles Company Ltd, the extensive Knowles product range now sits within the Sentry Doors catalogue of products, affording customers access to a complete range of fully certified fire doors. Sentry Doors has now announced the launch of a new-look Knowles range.

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WITH THE rising cost of living and widespread speculation about a global recession being just around the corner, now is the opportune time to improve visibility throughout a trade business. simPRO Software has produced an excellent e-Book to help fire contracting companies do just that.

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SPECIALIST CONSULTANCY CHPK Fire Engineering will have a major presence at The Fire Safety Event, with the business exhibiting on Stand C50 in Hall 3a. Dr Ahmed Allam, the company’s managing director, will also be speaking in The Fire Safety Theatre from 11.40 am to 12.10 pm on the subject of ‘The Fire Engineering Practice: Attempting to Understand The Big Picture’.

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SITE MANAGER, which is powered by InSite, is an innovative cloud-based software that allows the end user to remotely monitor the real-time status of all Fireco door retainers and closers.

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THE DEANS Community High School and the Armadale Academy, both of which are administered by West Lothian Council, are maintained by Bellrock Group under a contractual PPP3 project agreement. Taking on the maintenance management tasks for the two school buildings places the Bellrock management team as the ‘Responsible Person’ when it comes to compliance with fire safety maintenance, which of course incorporates fire-rated door sets.

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FIRE SAFETY and passive fire protection measures-focused consultancy Global HSE Solutions’ Global Technical Services division, which itself provides fire engineering advice and expertise to both Tier 1 contractors and Global HSE Solutions’ own contracting arm, is being ably assisted by PlanRadar’s powerful software.

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SPECIALIST SOFTWARE business simPRO has produced a series of online guides collected within an e-Book containing Best Practice advice designed to assist field service-related companies – including fire safety-related concerns – when it comes to growing and scaling their operations across 2023.

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THE FIRE Safety (England) Regulations 2022 will make it a legal requirement for ‘Responsible Persons’ in charge of all multi-occupied residential buildings (with storeys over 11 metres in height) to undertake annual inspections (on a ‘best endeavour’ basis) of all flat entrance doors leading to a building’s common areas. As such, Global Technical Services – part of the Global HSE Group specialising in fire safety engineering and passive fire protection services – is actively promoting its own Level 3 training course on fire door inspections.

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AS OF Monday 23 January 2023, the Fire Safety (England) Regulations will come into force. It will then be a legal requirement for all ‘Responsible Persons’ presiding over multi-occupied residential high-rise buildings (ie those structures upwards of 11 metres tall) in England to undertake quarterly checks on fire doors (including self-closing devices) in common parts. In direct response, the Global HSE Group has devised a detailed approach to ensure that the ‘golden thread’ of information for fire doors is maintained through its Ceasefire composite FD30 fire door range.

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MARK ATKINSON is a keen supporter of Fire Door Safety Week. Here, Hurst Doors’ sales director explains precisely why he firmly believes the sector needs to do all it can to educate stakeholders on how they might contribute towards maintaining fire safety, and also outlines the story behind the development of the company’s dedicated Neuma fds fire door system.

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AS PART of the renovation process at Sixty London Wall, almost 500 Profab Access high quality riser doors and access panels have been installed throughout the entire building by specialist carpentry, joinery and fit-out contractor JJ Sweeney.

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ONE OF the UK’s leading residential property management companies has described how its employees’ workdays have been “transformed” since the decision was taken to roll-out Tio Fire Safety’s true digital fire logbooks across its portfolio of multiple-occupancy sites.

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OWS FIRE Rated has announced the details of a new strategic alliance with Pyrostyle, itself a business division of Vert Projects, which is specifically designed to offer customers fire-rated internal doors and screens from Tuesday 1 March 2022. Having worked together on several projects over recent years, this move is viewed as a natural progression for the two companies.

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RISER DOOR and access panel solution supplier Profab Access has proven its first-class credentials once again with the recent completion of a major specification at Cardiff’s new five-star Parkgate Hotel involving its VEGA 1500 fire-rated riser doors.

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FOLLOWING ON from two years in which COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on businesses, lives and the economy worldwide, simPRO has pinpointed several key trends that can be expected to impact field service-focused fire safety solutions companies during 2022.

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