I received some excellent questions during the Q&A section during the recent webinar that I presented. Here you can see my answers to these questions, slightly edited for clarity.
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I received some excellent questions during the Q&A section during the recent webinar that I presented. Here you can see my answers to these questions, slightly edited for clarity.
Read MoreTopics: Smoke Control, Webinar, Corridor ventilation, CPD
The quest for energy efficiency has led to very good insulation in residential buildings. While this is very good for the environment and electricity bills, it is having unintended consequences on stair lobbies, corridors and entrance halls, which tend to overheat. This results in unpleasant conditions for residents and possible issues maintaining cold water supply temperatures.
Read MoreTopics: Smoke Control, Corridor ventilation
The prevention of smoke spread through buildings is of critical importance.
The Smoke Control Association (SCA) has published Revision 2 to its ‘Guidance on Smoke Control to Common Escape Routes in Apartment Buildings (Flats and Maisonettes)’, which is available for download from www.feta.co.uk/smokecontrol. This revision became necessary largely owing to the ever increasing complexity in the design of buildings, and also to fall in line with amendments to the recently published BS 9991.
Read MoreTopics: Smoke Control, Regulations, Corridor ventilation
I received some excellent questions during the Q&A section during the recent webinar that I presented. Here you can see my answers to these questions, slightly edited for clarity.
The background to the webinar is provided on our recent blog. In this blog we refer to Revision 2 of ‘Guidance on Smoke Control to Common Escape Routes in Apartment Buildings (Flats and Maisonettes)’ from The Smoke Control Association (SCA), which is available for download from www.feta.co.uk/smokecontrol. This is an important revision to the Guidance.
There is also a recording of the webinar available.
Read MoreTopics: Smoke Control, Regulations, Webinar, Corridor ventilation
At our recent webinar on the ventilation solutions for overheated corridors in apartment buildings webinar, I received some excellent questions during the Q&A section. Here you can see my answers to these questions, slightly edited for clarity.
There is also a recording of the webinar available.
Read MoreTopics: Smoke Control, Corridor ventilation
In this blog we don’t usually write about our products, but we have recently worked on a project that we think will provide interesting insights about preventing overheating in the common corridors of taller apartment buildings.
Read MoreTopics: Smoke Control, Corridor ventilation, Evaporative cooling
Mechanical shaft systems have plenty of advantages compared to a BRE Shaft or any natural system but they suffer from one major disadvantage compared to natural shaft systems.
Topics: Smoke Control, Smoke shafts, Corridor ventilation
Topics: Natural ventilation, Overheating, Corridor ventilation, Evaporative cooling
During my recent webinar on smoke shafts v pressurisation, I received a large number of questions. Here you can see my answers to these questions, slightly edited for clarity.
If you missed the live webinar, then a recorded version is available here.
Read MoreTopics: Smoke Control, Webinar, Pressurisation, Smoke shafts, Corridor ventilation
At my recent "Ventilation solutions for overheating corridors in apartment buildings" webinar, I received some interesting questions in the Q&A session. Here are my answers, which have been edited slightly for clarity.
Read MoreTopics: Natural ventilation, Webinar, Smoke ventilation, Overheating, Corridor ventilation
Overheating in common corridors in residential buildings has become an increasingly vexing problem, which can be addressed by using a two-shaft smoke control system for day-to-day ventilation. One of the major issues is how many floors we can ventilate concurrently while still achieving a reasonable air flow balance between floors.
Topics: Webinar, Smoke ventilation, HVAC, Overheating, Corridor ventilation, CPD