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Oviedo Spain TunProtec Seminar 22-24th May 2018

FSQ Group recently sent engineering delegates from Australia to the Spanish Tunnel Fire Protection Seminar. Participants got the opportunity to witness a full-scale tunnel fire test live, at the APPLUS- TST test tunnel in Spain, testing how different systems control, suppress and fight tunnel fires. Participants learned the latest information on these tunnel topics: Fixed […]

Ionisation Smoke Alarms Failure to Warn- Causes Injury or Death

                            19 June 2018 Smoke Alarm Manufacturers- Product Liability Warning   The Australian Government's chief scientific research body, the CSIRO, is being taken to the administrative appeals tribunal as part of a campaign for data on smoke alarms. Critics claim CSIRO test […]

Lessons from Grenfell London Fire Disaster of 14th June 2017

Russ Timpson, Secretary of the Tall Building Fire Safety Network, called the tragedy the fire industry’s ‘asbestos moment’. He said: “We’ve now discovered a horrendous miscalculation. We’re going to be judged on how we respond to this, going forward. Tall building fire safety management more essential than ever in wake of Grenfell London Fire disaster […]

Cladding Danger of Grenfell Tower fire sends shudders through Australia’s property industry

Cladding audit marks 77 city buildings for further inquiry in Adelaide, and London’s enquiry fails to ban combustible cladding. London: In May 2018, Dame Judith Hackitt, a former Chair of the HSE, delivered her final recommendations following her Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety for the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG). […]