Viewpoint: Government plans to abandon expectations of Sprinklers in new schools

Fire Safety Design for Schools BB100 Since its inception in 2007, the Department for Education’s Building Bulletin 100 (BB100) “Fire Safety Design for Schools” has promoted the installation of Fire Sprinklers in new schools based upon a risk-assessed approach.  However, with proposed revisions stating that “BB100 no longer includes an expectation that most new school […]


Did You Know? – ST 4 In-Rack Protection

ST4 In-Rack Sprinkler Protection. Since 2014 when TB234 was first issued. All in-rack protection pertaining to ‘ST4 Pallet Racking’ was changed. It now requires horizontal sprinkler locations at every transverse flue, at a vertical spacing of 3.5 metres or every second tier level (whichever is lesser). Prior to the issue of TB234, in-rack protection for […]


Sprinkler Design Engineer

We’re recruiting: Sprinkler Design Engineer

Due to continued and steady growth, we now have a truly exciting opportunity for an experienced Fire Sprinkler Design Engineer to join our expanding Project Team at our head office in Haverhill, Suffolk. We seek a highly motivated and well-organised individual able to demonstrate a positive attitude to work. Candidates must hold the LPCB’s Basic, […]


The Wait Is Over!

Welcome to our new and improved website. 2015 was an exciting year and we envisage 2016 to be even more so. We have invested heavily into an exciting continual improvement program, which has seen numerous changes made to Fire Security (Sprinkler Installations) Ltd. We’ll be using this medium to communicate these changes, Company news and […]


Website Overhaul

We are currently in the process of updating and overhauling our Website. The new website will have refreshed content aimed to be both informative and helpful.


Call for schools to be sprinklered after 50 fires in two years!

The Yorkshire Post is running a call for South Yorkshire schools to be fitted with sprinklers after the disclosure that 59 school fires have taken place in the past two years. The South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service says that: “When you consider the huge costs associated with a school fire such as rebuilding, temporary […]


Sprinkler System Saves Paper Mill in Kings Lynn

On 19th  July 2015 a fire occurred in the pulp storage area of a paper producer in Kings Lynn. All the storage bays were mostly full of pulp, potentially providing a massive fire loading in a building understood to be one of the largest in Norfolk. The on-site sprinkler system activated confining the fire to […]


Sprinkler Save: Sixth Form College: Middlesborough

Noel Cornforth at Cleveland Fire Brigade reports that at just after 1500hrs on the afternoon of Sunday 17th May, and while the building was occupied by about 100 Students, a fire occurred in a waste bin in a second floor toilet area at a Sixth Form College in Middlesborough. One pendant sprinkler head activated in […]


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