Hotel fined £27,000 for ten offences - Fire Safety Order

Awan Investments Ltd have been found guilty of ten offences under the the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order and were ordered to pay £27,000.

Awan Investments manages the Ventures hotel in the Paddington, London and after a visit from London Fire brigade they found a number of failings including blocked emergency exits wedged open.  

The two defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges.

London Fire Brigade’s assistant commissioner for fire safety regulation, Steve Turek, said: “The general public should feel safe from fire when they are staying at a hotel and the responsible person must make sure their premises comply with the regulations.”

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Care home show - London Olympia

Armstrong Priestley will be exhibiting a range of residential fire sprinkler solutions for the care sector at the Care Home Show, London Olympia on the 6 and 7 October 2010.

Armstrong Priestley is a leading supplier of residential fire sprinkler installations for the care sector and has a wealth of experience in the installation of systems into both new buildings and the retrofitting into the most challenging of properties including grade I & II buildings and historic monuments.

Residential fire sprinkler systems can help care home owners with compliance in respect of the fire safety order, reduce night staffing levels and allow you more flexibility with design for your care home.  Why not visit us on stand D27 to see if we can help you.
 

Hydraulic calculations for Wet & Dry risers systems

A useful research report has been published by ODPM to provided information on the limitations of fire rising mains such as wet and dry risers complying with BS 5306 part 1 : 2006.  The report looks at a number of different pumps and nozzle and hydraulic calculates the pressure loss through the pipe.


You can get a full copy of the report at http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/fire/pdf/381216.pdf

Sprinkler systems in Schools what’s the future

Cancellation of the Building Schools for the Future programme will stop dead the momentum for the acceptance of sprinkler systems in educational programmes. In addition, the loss of a major construction programme will have a devastating effect upon the building industry, already damaged by the downturn in the housing and commercial market. Where builders and developers may have had an inclination to include sprinklers in a building previously (and there were not too many examples of that), the tightening of purse strings will almost certainly cause a dramatic rethink.

Keeping the Fire and Rescue Service ahead of budget cuts | Fire Magazine

Fire in detention centre

A fire broke out in a detention centre in Zeist in the Netherlands on 29^th July 2010. The fire was in a cell where a man was sleeping the fire sprinkler system activated and extinguished the fire.  This is the seconded fire which has been extinguished by the fire sprinkler systems in the last six months.