Chris Peters, chief design manager, looks at arson in schools and some simple steps to minimise risk and damage. Last November fire badly damaged Peebles High School in the Scottish Borders. At its height, some 70 firefighters worked to contain the blaze. However, the good news is that pupils will start to return to their […]
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Wrightstyle and security glazing for retail safety
Security Glazing – Retail It’s approaching that time of year when shops and shopping centres will experience their busiest period, and when nobody in the retail sector can be complacent about security. It’s worth remembring that the outgoing Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said very recently that a terrorist attack like those seen this […]
Wrightstyle scores with prestigious Wembley project
BREEAM rated Wembley Project Wrightstyle, the leading steel glazing specialist, has completed a prestigious Wembley project for the London Borough of Brent’s new Civic Centre, the UK’s first “outstanding” BREEAM rated public building, which opened last month. The 9-storey £100 million building, set within a 2.5 acre site, accommodates some 2,000 staff and councillors, and […]
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, […]
New Teaching Centre – Chiltern
Wrightstyle supplies fire safety to new teaching centre Wrightstyle has supplied a range of systems for a state -of-the-art vocational teaching centre in Cheshire, Buckinghamshire. The new Chiltern Skills and Enterprise Centre, which opened earlier this year, is providing a range of courses from catering to construction, carpentry to mechanical engineering, and from computer technology […]
