Despite the current challenges, there seem to be opportunities for fire safety with safety awareness, home working, growth of IT and reshoring of plastics supply chains. pinfa members and the pinfa Advisory Board in May separately and informally discussed challenges...
The EU’s recovery plan building “renovation wave” should include the update of fire safety and security installations. The fire safety and alarm industry federation EURALARM sees building renovation as an opportunity and driver for tighter fire safety requirements,...
A public consultation is open to 19th August on revision of the EU Construction Products Regulation. The proposed ‘Roadmap’ underlines the Green Deal and Circular Economy Action Plan objectives of making buildings more sustainable and facilitating repair, re-use and...
A public consultation is open to 9th July on the EU Green Deal building energy efficiency initiative “Renovation Wave”. The public questionnaire proposes “fires and earthquakes” as one the six objectives for building renovation in its first question, but not as an...
Update to EU Green Public Purchasing proposes to exclude halogenated FRs and promote alternatives assessments. An EU (JRC) stakeholder consultation is open* to 17th July 2020. The proposal includes a new “core and comprehensive” criterion restricting halogenated...
