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fire safety
Ensuring fire safety
COMPLIANCE
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Daniel May, director at Consort Architectural Hardware, discusses the pivotal relationship between fire safety and ironmongery, and how compliance is compromised without essential hardware components.
“Fire safety itself is a complex topic... it’s imperative to provide an acceptable level of fire safety for occupants and visitors alike. For this, fire doors play an integral role.”
F ABOVE: Fire safety ranges from prevention to containment and evacuation.
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ire is an unpredictable risk that poses a whole host of dangers to buildings and organisations. As regulation strengthens to protect buildings, assets, staff and companies, the fine line that organisations must walk has fire safety equipment at its core. Fire compliance and ironmongery, for core components, appear to walk hand-in-hand. Daniel May is a director at Consort Architectural Hardware,
a leading manufacturer and supplier of architectural hardware components, and dissected the risks that neglecting hardware installation and maintenance poses to an organisation’s fire safety.
Fire safety approach Fire safety itself is a complex topic, covering a wide range of subjects and themes, from prevention to containment and evacuation – all of which carry
great significance when designing and maintaining a fire-safe building. For a building’s architects, specifiers, inspectors and owners, it is imperative to provide an acceptable level of fire safety for occupants and visitors alike. And for this, fire doors play an integral role. Recognised as part of a building’s passive fire protection system, fire doors are a means of escape and are tasked with compartmentalising smoke and
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