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Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Christmas opening hours
The BESCA helpdesk will close for Christmas at 11:30am on Friday 22nd December, and re-open at 9:00am on Tuesday 2nd January. From the whole BESCA team, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New...
Read MoreFriday, October 27, 2017
New Ventilation Hygiene Elite scheme launched
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has launched a scheme to help ventilation hygiene specialists demonstrate their competence, quality and standards. With building owners and operators becoming more aware of the fire risks posed by poorly cleaned and maintained systems, there has been growing demand for a robust process to verify the quality of cleaning – particularly of grease...
Read MoreWednesday, August 23, 2017
GRENFELL - WHAT ELSE ARE WE MISSING PART 6
PART 6 - LESS SPEED MORE HASTE – GRENFELL – WHEN WILL WE LEARN It has been a little over two months, but over the coming weeks, many questions will still be asked around the Grenfell tragedy. These are questions which we should not predict the answers to, given the severity fire, but questions that will need to be answered. People are already asking questions – questions asked like ‘did the...
Read MoreThursday, August 17, 2017
GRENFELL - WHAT ELSE ARE WE MISSING PART 5
PART 5 – FLUES, CHIMNEYS AND EXHAUSTS: INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE Continuing our series of looking at the non-cladding aspects of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, we now move onto a key part of a passive fire safety strategy; flues and exhausts. A flue is quite simply a duct, pipe, or opening in a chimney to get exhaust gases from a fireplace, furnace, water heater, boiler or a generator out of the...
Read MoreWednesday, August 2, 2017
GRENFELL - WHAT ELSE ARE WE MISSING? PART 4: THE SYMPTOMS VS. THE DISEASE - A SOLUTION
DAVID FRISE, BESA HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY The simple solution to addressing regulation and enforcement does not requires rafts of legislation (except perhaps in fire safety), but the simple enforcement of simplified regulations, which are designed to give us a safe, healthy built environment that we can enjoy in a sustainable way. For this to work Building Regulations and Planning Consents need...
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