Understanding How to Achieve Fire Safety Compliance
Fire protection in buildings is a growth market, predicted to rise 5% according to Barbour ABI(1), predicted to be worth over £1billion by 2029. Every building needs some sort of fire protection, be it passive or active. We have an expanding urban environment. Regulations are changing, becoming stricter. As one of the […]
Addressing the challenge of fire protection in a complex building
How do you ensure optimum fire protection for a nine storey, 14,000m2 building that requires high-end levels of finish, N+1 resilience, is used by vulnerable people and contains highly flammable gases? That was the challenge facing building services specialists Briggs & Forrester Engineering Services and answered by Gilberts Blackpool. The project is the result of […]
Gilberts raises the bar with fire protection in ventilation solutions
New Fire Rated Connection Box is the only plenum of its kind in the UK tested to deliver such high performance Gilberts has risen to the challenge of ensuring the balance of ventilation and safety in fire protection with the development of its Fire Rated Connection Box (plenum). The Fire Rated Connection Box (available in […]
Raising the standard in smoke and fire protection
With growing emphasis on managing the risk of smoke and fire within building safety, Gilberts is leading the way to optimise control. To address increasing demand and to exceed criteria laid down in the latest Building Regulations, Gilberts is launching a new, fully tested range of insulated smoke and fire dampers. The insulated […]
Improved Smoke Protection
Series 61 is the latest smoke control damper to come to market from Gilberts, Britain’s leading independent air movement specialist. The single ‘door sized’ S61 compliments the company’s established, successful UKCA certified and CE marked Series 60 (S60) smoke evacuation damper. The new S61 has been designed, tested and certified to EN1366-2, EN1366-10 and EN12101-8 […]
Helping create a “template” for eco prison estate transformation
Government plans to transform prisons to make them more modern and sustainable have begun with the completion of the first of six new prisons, the award-winning(1) HMP Five Wells. The design for the new £253million, approx. 1700 place Category C custodial facility at Wellingborough delivered by Kier Construction with a nationwide support team working to […]
Protecting Twin Towers
An “iconic” site that has been transformed into high rise, high specification living for young professionals is a showcase for the latest in modern methods of construction- including its fire protection. The Coventry development- named Elliotts Yard after the automotive business that occupied the city centre site since the 1920s- comprises two separate buildings including […]