newsAS PART of the review of Building Regulations (Approved Document B), and in response to emerging evidence on long-term firefighter health issues, the government is investigating whether the effects of fire toxicity should be a legal requirement when choosing materials for high risk buildings.
productAltro has added innovative new ranges to its award-winning, adhesive-free, sustainable floors to offer adhesive-free options for a host of applications in the building.
productConstruction sites are busy, complex environments containing large numbers of people from many different trades all of whom need to be carefully coordinated and managed to keep the project on time and to budget.
article30 years ago all our major rivers were open sewers. Now we have otters in every English county and 97% of our bathing beaches pass European standards. But are England’s rivers still among the most polluted in Europe?
Here, Miles Hillmann asks Helen Wakeham from the Environment Agency (EA) about water pollution incidents in Britain and the value to companies and other organisations of public recognition through entering the BSIF Water Pollution Prevention Award.
productEngweld provides a range of welding fume extraction solutions, including Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV), compliant with new regulations following the reclassification of mild steel welding fume as a human carcinogen.
newsTHREE COMPANIES have been ordered to pay fines totalling £670,000 after admitting fire safety failings at a building used for student accommodation in Leeds.
newsMATERIALS MOVEMENT Ltd and P J Labour Services Ltd have been fined after a worker was killed in an explosion at a demolition site.
newsA WASTE management and packing company has been fined after a worker was struck by a falling bale of compacted waste paper.
newsTHE DIRECTOR of a scrap tyre yard has been handed a suspended prison sentence for a series of fire safety offences after an emergency fire door was nailed shut in a building where workers were living.
productTHE RECENT drive for electrification has led to a dramatic increase in the use of Sulphur Hexafluoride (SF6). A dielectric gas, SF6 is used to prevent short circuits and catastrophic incidents within the electrical industry.
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