Thanks to all those who attended my webinar last week on the design considerations when integrating smoke and fire curtains into a building. The webinar is now available as a recording, which you can watch at any time.
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Thanks to all those who attended my webinar last week on the design considerations when integrating smoke and fire curtains into a building. The webinar is now available as a recording, which you can watch at any time.
Read MoreTopics: Fire Containment, Smoke Containment, Webinar, Curtains
Topics: Fire Containment, Smoke Containment, Webinar, Curtains
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
I received some excellent questions during my recent webinar on evaporative cooling. Here you can see my answers to these questions, slightly edited for clarity.
There is also a recording of the webinar available.
Read MoreTopics: Webinar, Climate Control, Evaporative cooling
Evaporative cooling is an exceptionally efficient and economical means of cooling industrial buildings, production facilities, warehouses and data centres. It is not a new technology, infact it is widely used around the world. So why isn’t it more widespread in the UK?
Common misconceptions about this excellent technology are stopping many facilities managers and factory owners from taking advantage of the considerable savings it can achieve for them. Let’s address these concerns and look at the main benefits of evaporative cooling.
Read MoreTopics: Webinar, Energy saving, Evaporative cooling, Whitepaper
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.
There is also a recording of the webinar available.
Read MoreTopics: Webinar, Pressurisation, Smoke shafts, CPD
Owing to the different types of occupancy patterns, the Building Regulations rightly provide differing guidance for commercial and residential buildings.
So, when a building changes use, assuming that the developer is not prepared to alter the layout of the stair, it is likely that Building Control will insist on a fire engineered solution leading to the highest degree of protection in terms of the smoke control system.
Read MoreTopics: Webinar, Pressurisation, Smoke shafts, Residential Buildings
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, CPD
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
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: Fire Containment, Smoke Containment, Webinar, Curtains
Here is a copy of the questions and answers from our recent webinar on smoke and environmental ventilation of multi-storey buildings using shafts, slightly edited for clarity.
During the webinar I introduced our new whitepaper on the subject, which you can download here.
There is also a recording of the webinar available here.
Read MoreTopics: Webinar, Smoke ventilation, Smoke shafts
At our recent webinar on car park ventilation, I received lots of excellent questions during the Q&A section. Here you can see my answers to these questions, slightly edited for clarity.
During the webinar I introduced our new whitepaper on designing car park ventilation systems, which you can download here.
There is also a recording of the webinar available.
Read MoreTopics: Webinar, Car Park Ventilation
If you have ever written a louvre specification, you will know how large a number of variables you have to deal with in order to select the right louvre for your design.
Here are some resources and key considerations to help you when specifying weather louvres.
Read MoreTopics: Webinar, Louvre, Whitepaper
At our recent webinar on the general principles of smoke control, 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, Webinar
At our recent webinar on smoke shafts v pressurisation, 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, Webinar, Pressurisation, Smoke shafts