Escaping from prison fires. Wrightstyle takes a look at the dilemmas of planning escape routes in buildings designed to stop escapes! When fire breaks out in a highly-populated building, the first priority is to ensure occupant safety, normally by quick evacuation. But what happens when the whole purpose of that building is to prevent people […]
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Austerity and public building design
Austerity and Public Building Design Austerity and public building design is a thorny subject. Though austerity has been shared across households and every business sector, it has fallen particularly hard on public infrastructure expenditure. According to the National Audit Office, capital expenditure stood at £57 billion in 2009/10, falling to £42 billion in 2013/14. However, […]
Wind loading and glass technologies
Extreme Weather and Wind Loading Wrightstyle takes a look at the crucial importance of wind loading in modern building design, in view of extreme weather events and climate change. Over the past few months, extreme weather events have battered countries in the Caribbean and Asia, testing the resilience of local communities and the infrastructure on […]
Terminal stupidity and innocuous fires
An unsettling look at how easily fires can start in a building and the lack of fire compartmentation design in buildings costs lives. Some stupid accidents Fires usually start from the most innocuous, or stupid, of reasons. For example, a woman in Bridgend, South Wales, accidentally set her house on fire last year after trying […]
Globalisation, Nation Brands & Advanced Glass
Jane Embury, the company’s marketing director, looks at some of the influences facing the glass industry in these times of globalisation. International Rankings The economic impact of globalisation affects us all, whether as businesses trading internationally or consumers buying locally, with corporate success and individual purchasing decisions heavily influenced by nothing more than perception. At […]
