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by Joel Benjamin | Jul 5, 2016 | NHS, Schools | 0 comments

The Price of PFI on BBC File on 4 features exclusive research by members of The People vs PFI exposing systemic failures in building and fire safety standards in public schools and hospitals constructed via Private Finance Initiative (PFI).

Schools in Edinburgh and Merseyside and hospitals in Manchester and Peterborough built without key structural elements and fire safety compartments, placing staff, students, patients, and fire ...

A school residential block is thought to be the first in north Wales to install sprinklers after new fire legislation came into effect.

Wales became the first country in the world to make it mandatory that all new buildings – such as homes, flats and care homes – be fitted out.

Ruthin School’s 40-bedroom block for boarding pupils has a system installed.

North Wales Fire and Rescue’s Stuart Millington ...

Sprinkler save : residential

Southwark Specialised Housing scheme: Thursday 1st September 2016

At about 1515 on Thursday 1st September 2016 a fire occurred on the cooker in the flat of an 82 year old resident at the residential specialised housing scheme in Canterbury Place, London.  London Fire Brigade also report that there were some issues with hoarding.

The block had been fitted with automatic fire sprinklers to BS9251 as part of a scheme ...

Ipswich Office Block: August 2016

At 2019 on 29th August 2016 Suffolk Fire & Rescue Service received an AFA signal to a 6 storey office block towards the centre of the town. On arrival at the premises operational crews were faced with smoke issuing from the car park at ground floor level and upon investigation it was identified that an amount of cardboard and rubbish had been placed within the car ...

At around 2215 on Saturday 3rd September a fire broke out in a ground floor test area of a semi conductor manufacturer in Langley Park, Chippenham, Wiltshire.

The electrical fire  activated one pendant sprinkler head on the wet pipe system within the two storey factory and the fire was reported to be ‘out on arrival’.

Details of this incident were confused by the fact that a large fire service attendance and ...