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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
