A detailed review summarises research into rail carriage fires from the 1970’s to today, including NIST, Eureka, Firestarr, Transfeu and Metro projects, and translation into standards for materials fire performance and toxic gas emissions in combustion, including...
Diaz et al. (2018) tested recycling of post-consumer cable polymers back to cables by milling and rotational molding to produce 200mm test polymer cubes, after blending 10-50% with virgin polyethylene (PE). The recovered cable materials came from a waste management...
The EU has published the revised energy performance of buildings Directive (EPBD). This notes that Member States renovation strategies can address fire safety, and that major renovation of buildings should be encouraged to take into account fire safety. This results...
Philadelphia City Council is considering a Bill to make hard-wired (not only battery operated) smoke alarms obligatory in all boarding houses, as part of a number of improvements to social lodging regulations. Installation by end 2019 would be required. This follows a...
Padanaplast has launched seven new HFFR (halogen free flame retardant) grades of Cogegum® wire and cable compounds, for building and construction (Construction Products Regulation compliant, up to classification B2ca) and for automobile applications (ISO 6722...
