Building design today, and throughout the 20th century, has been significantly shaped by fire safety considerations. Architects today are familiar with the wide range of code requirements for a ...

Fire rated door assemblies play an important role in saving lives and minimizing property damage by providing safe egress and compartmentalizing smoke, flames and when required, dangerous radiant heat ...

Protecting a building from the spread of smoke and fire is vital to allow safe evacuation of occupants. Here, Dominick Sandford, Director and Head of Merchandising and Marketing at IronmongeryDirect, ...

When it comes to access control in public buildings, there’s no weightier responsibility than specifying the correct locking solution on emergency escape and fire doors. There were 177,844 fires in ...

Fire walls and fire barriers are inserted into buildings to separate spaces into reasonably-sized fire areas, or because hazards are present. The separations must be continuous or their purpose will ...

When access control hardware is installed on doors in a new or existing building, it’s extremely important to be aware of the fire, life-safety and building codes that impact these applications.

"Among the 44 councils that have identified non-compliant or potentially non-compliant doors since March 2018, half are yet to replace a single one" Read our investigation into the safety of fire ...