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Fire Door Surveys
- April 6, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Advice & Tools, Industry News, Our News
No CommentsAs a building owner, landlord or Responsible Person, you have a statutory obligation to ensure your fire doors are compliant and fit for purpose. So, you instruct a third party accredited fire door contractor to inspect and assess your fire doors. You (should) then receive a detailed report and cost estimate. Naturally, you want to -
New Fire Safety Bill introduced
- March 30, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News
The Home Office has introduced a new bill to improve fire safety in buildings Building on action already taken to ensure tragedies like the Grenfell Tower never happen again, the new Fire Safety Bill amends the Fire Safety Order 2005. This clarifies that the responsible person or duty-holder for multi-occupied, residential buildings must ensure fire -
Fire Door Experts – Business Continues…
- March 24, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News
Covid-19, a company update In light of recent developments in the fight against Covid-19, BWC Fire Door Experts have made changes to the way we operate. All staff able to work remotely are now doing so, allowing current and future projects to keep moving forwards. Emails are being monitored and replied to as normal; office -
Fire Door Surveys have clear criteria – or do they create confusion??
- March 6, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Advice & Tools, Industry News, Our News
Here at Fire Door Experts we are looking forward to the upcoming Fire Safety Bill as this, long awaited legislation will hopefully provide clear guidelines on the statutory obligations of landlords, building owners, operators and Responsible Persons with regards to their fire doors. However, what we are concerned about is that there still does not -
Regular fire door checks to become law in all blocks of flats
- February 20, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Advice & Tools, Industry News, Our News
As fire door maintenance experts, we welcome the upcoming Fire Safety Bill. This is set to stipulate fire doors in all blocks of flats will need to be checked every 3 months. This proposed new law comes from phase one of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, where it has been recommended that building owners or managers -
Government Report on Grenfell Inquiry Phase 1
- January 29, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Advice & Tools, Industry News, Our News
Yesterday, the Government published a document which sets out its response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry's Phase 1 report of October 2019. There are a number of actions being taken by the Government to ensure that a tragedy like Grenfell never happens again. These actions are largely based on Dame Judith's recommendations in her independent -
School Fire Door Replacements – On time, to budget…
- January 16, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News
Fire Door Experts are proud to have delivered this fire door replacement project for Sellings CofE School in Faversham, Kent - on time, to budget! Engaged as fire door contractors by ST Construction on behalf of Carré Consultancy, FDE worked closely with client, school and supply chain to ensure the smooth running of the project. -
Fire Door Experts are back on site at Euston Station
- January 13, 2020
- Posted by: fireexperts
- Category: Industry News, Our News
Fire Door Experts are back on site at Euston Station for the 13th month running, working on behalf of Skanska and Network Rail for all enabling works for their HS2 project. This contract originally started off as a small contract to supply and install two Assa Abbloy Steel doors for a riser wall. Now into our