Fire Safety Insights

Buildings naturally drift out of fire safety compliance over their lifetime. Building owners and managers for non-domestic premises might reasonably assume that once safety measures have been installed, assessed, and documented, compliance would remain in place unless something significant changes. As any compliance professional will tell you: In practice, this is rarely the case. Buildings are not static environments, and even where no obvious alterations have taken place, t

In many commercial buildings and some domestic flats and tenements, fire doors are present, labelled, and in regular use. They sit in corridors, protect stairwells, and separate wokring and living spaces in line with what most would expect from a functioning fire safety system. At a glance they might appear to be compliant — but appearance is not synonymous performance. In practice, fire doors are one of the most commonly compromised elements within domestic and commercial bu

The Glasgow Central Fire: The Hidden Fire Risks in Commercial Buildings The recent fire in Glasgow city centre has brought renewed attention to how quickly fire can spread through non-domestic buildings, particularly where older structures meet modern and often unregulated use. The incident within Glasgow Central Station, alongside previous high-profile Glasgow fires such as those affecting Glasgow School of Art, highlights a consistent pattern. There's a crisis in how Glasgo