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The government has announced a significant update to fire safety guidance for tall residential buildings. Key Highlights: 🔹 From 30th September 2026, new residential buildings over 18 meters must include a second staircase, enhancing safety measures. 🔹 This update, part of a series of reforms, including the Building Safety Act, aims to improve the safety of residents in both new and existing high-rise buildings. 🔹 The decision, supported by the National Fire Chiefs Council and the Royal Institute of British Architects, follows extensive consultation and aligns with the Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommendations. This pivotal change underscores the importance of safety in design and offers clarity for developers during challenging times. https://lnkd.in/e-nada8E #FacilitiesManagement #FireSafety #BuildingSafety #ConstructionIndustry #ResidentialBuildings

🚨 Building Regulations Part B: 2025 Updates for Residential Projects 🚨 The updated Building Regulations Part B document has arrived, bringing significant changes to fire safety standards for residential properties. These updates aim to enhance safety and align with modern practices, ensuring a safer built environment for all. This also features color coded amendments set to take effect in 2025, 2026, and 2029. Here are a few key changes to note: ✅ Mandatory evacuation alert systems in specific residential buildings. ✅ Stricter guidance on self-closing devices for fire doors in residential properties. ✅ Clearer specifications for fire-resistant materials in residential construction. These updates reflect the industry’s commitment to improving occupant safety and compliance. #BuildingRegulations #PartB #FireSafety #ResidentialDesign #Architecture #Construction

BS 9991:2015 is the British Standard Code of Practice for Fire Safety in the Design, Management, and Use of Residential Buildings. It provides guidelines for architects, property designers, and fire safety professionals to ensure adequate fire safety measures are integrated into building designs, including the installation of fire suppression systems. BS 9991:2015 provides a level of flexibility that allows the fire protection measures, and the associated risks, to be assessed to enable reasonable practical solutions to be designed. The guide below has been created to provide a clearer understanding of BS 9991:2015 and the design freedoms that can be achieved within its scope. Included are some examples of projects made possible with the use of fire suppression systems. Download Guide: https://lnkd.in/eBYFXjAz #Architecture #PropertyDesign #FireSafety

🏗️ Our latest guide is here to enhance compatibility of test evidence for building components within larger systems! 🌟 We’re tackling the challenge of isolated design practices by promoting a holistic approach and early collaboration with manufacturers and contractors. This aligns perfectly with the RIBA Plan of Work and the Building Safety Act for higher-risk buildings. 🔍 Key Highlights: The importance of 'firewalls' 🔥 Updated guidance on maintaining compartment lines Insights on supporting imposed loads Relevant standards for further reading 📚 Find out more and access the guide here: #ConstructionSafety #BuildingStandards #FireSafety #RIBAPlanOfWork #BuildingSafetyAct

The result of two years work by a dedicated group of industry experts, it outlines the importance of compatible compliant evidence when designing ‘Fire Walls’ It’s important for anyone specifying suppling and constructing Drylining.

This guide represents a HUGE collaborative effort within and beyond our community and starts to look at the challenges in bringing products together as systems within buildings. It is a must read for anyone involved in the specification and design development of wall systems and the products that come together to form these vital compartments (including doors, raised access floors, glazed partitions, access panels etc).

Following our second Façade Focus session on the Future of Façade Remediation in October, this new article focusses more closely on the impact the Building Safety Act 2022 is having on the recladding of apartment buildings. We tackle the issues surrounding the number of buildings that require remediation, how these projects pose unique challenges and factors to consider such as cost, compliance and competency. The full article is available to download here: https://lnkd.in/gPkxpFf4 #Facades #FacadeIndustry #FacadeRemediation #TheBuildingSafetyAct #Recladding #ConstructionUK

Do you have a flat roofing project coming up? Want to learn more about current fire regulations and design considerations in flat roofing? Register to join our up coming CPD that covers key topics on fire safety within flat roofing at info@stratawaterproofing.com #firesafety #CPD #flatroofing #architecture #construction #buildingregulations #regulations

The publication of Grenfell Tower Enquiry Report: Phase 2 last week made very sobering reading and reminds us in the façade industry, if indeed we needed reminding, that the fire safety of individuals must come before anything else. We are all acutely aware of the issues that surround the remediation of unsafe buildings and the need to push forward with this work. At present, the Government reported number of buildings that require remediation is growing every month as further investigation is carried out. According to statistics released by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, formerly the DLUHC, there were 4,630 residential buildings, 11 metres and over, identified as having unsafe cladding at the end of July 2024. Of these, only 1,350 have completed remediation works with 949 started. That leaves 2,331 buildings reported with no work yet begun. And these are just the buildings with known problems. The Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister have both recently stated that the work of refurbishing these buildings must speed up. We wait to see how they are going to achieve this acceleration, very welcome as it will be to the leaseholders and residents of these apartments. Publication of this report is an opportunity to improve fire safety, and we need to look to how we react to it. We in the façade industry can all contribute to fire safety in the future by taking on the challenges of the Building Safety Act, embracing the new regulation and designing, manufacturing and constructing to the required standards. We have great professionals in our industry, we are getting hold of this and it’s not that difficult. Indeed, at our next Façade Focus event on October 17th, we will be continuing the theme of fire safety and recladding, focussing more on what the industry now needs to do, working within the Building Safety Act, and the progress of fire remediation works. Last, but not least, we are thrilled to welcome John Neale of DMWR Architects Ltd to our team this month. #Facades #FacadeIndustry #FacadeFireSafety #BuildingSafetyAct #Recladding #FireRemediation #FacadeFocus

BS 9991:2015 is the British Standard Code of Practice for Fire Safety in the Design, Management, and Use of Residential Buildings. It provides guidelines for architects, property designers, and fire safety professionals to ensure adequate fire safety measures are integrated into building designs, including the installation of fire suppression systems. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eY3-DAJf #Architecture #PropertyDesign #FireSafety #FireSuppression