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Smoke control for IKEA’s new Exeter branch

Overview: Whenever the Swedish giant IKEA opens a new store it’s a newsworthy event. Never more so than when excited customers travelled up to 100 miles to the opening of their new Exeter branch in anticipation of bagging some Scandi design excellence. Unfortunately, this keen group of customers didn’t get the memo that the opening...

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VeriShaft system for hotel refurb

Overview:   When a building undergoes a change of use, so its smoke control systems need to be reviewed and – very likely – refurbished, upgraded or replaced.   In the case of Brook House, London, a Grade II listed office block on the corner of Tottenham Court Road, the conversion to a Premier Inn...

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R7 development at King’s Cross

Overview The impressive R7 office building at King’s Cross, Hayside, has benefited from industry-leading ventilation systems designed and installed by Adexsi UK. The development has been designed by Duggan Morris Architects and adds up to 150,000 sq ft across 10 floors of modern and attractive office space – already all fully let by the likes...

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Building a home for Amazon HQ

Overview Online retailer Amazon surely needs no introduction, and we’re proud to say we’ve contributed to making its new UK headquarters a safer and comfortable place to work. Principal Place is located near Broadgate in the heart of London and is a 15 storey building capable of housing no less than 5,000 people in a...

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Adexsi Report: why control smoke?

  Proving the case for the priority of smoke control in life saving building design   You’ll often hear comments or read articles from people in our industry along the lines of “it’s not heat or flames that kill and injure in a fire, it’s smoke.” It’s a natural enough assumption and it boosts the...

CFD should come first – fire engineering in the design process

As smoke control specialists we use CFD (computational fluid dynamics) to work out how smoke will react in building areas of different types, using criteria such as expected fire energy output, corridor dimensions, distance between doors, stairwell locations, damper size etc etc. It’s a very important part of designing, for example, a mechanical smoke shaft...

Grenfell inquiry update – is your smoke control system compliant?

The smoke has long cleared but the shadow of the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire will hang over this country for many years to come, and those of us in the fire safety industry feel a special kind of pain when we think of what happened there. It has galvanised us to work with...

System Integration – the important recipe for true fire safety

We’re smoke ventilation specialists, so you’ll have seen many of our blogs focusing on this subject at length.   But the reason we do what we do is pretty singular – it’s all about making buildings such as residential tower blocks safer in the event of a fire breaking out. It might not be as...

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