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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...
Read MoreCFD 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...
Read MoreGrenfell 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...
Read MoreSystem 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...
Read MoreVent smoke to save lives
The subject of fire safety in residential buildings has never been so prevalent in the nation’s collective mind, and it seems the mainstream media has decided to leap upon just one important aspect of keeping these buildings protected: sprinkler systems. To a degree, they’re right to do so. Sprinkler suppress fires, they limit their...
Read MoreAdexsi Charity Run Raises Thousands
Members of the Adexsi UK team popped over to France last weekend (24th September 2017) to take part in the inaugural Adexsi Race – a charity event organised and competed in by Adexsi staff in Tours, situated between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. The Adexsi Race was integrated into the renowned Marathon of Tours,...
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