Efectis launches EU-funded initiative towards coherence of EU fire safety statistics, terminology and methodologies. This project results from an EU Parliament motion voted in 2018 (see pinfa Newsletter n°95). The aim is to map terminology and fire data collected by...
More than UK£ 5 billion to replace flammable building cladding, announced by the UK Government may still not be enough. The UK has promised a further £ 3.5 bn funding to help owners remove non fire safe cladding materials from buildings > 18m high, adding to £ 1.6...
The Grenfell fire inquiry is continuing to question information supplied to customers by cladding manufacturers. As indicated in pinfa Newsletter n°121, input to the inquiry has suggested that one product used on Grenfell Tower may have been sold as fire Class 0 based...
A new list of high-rise building façade fires is launched by Wikipedia, with nearly 60 incidents over the last 30 years. The most recent listed fire is the Samhwan Art Nouveau building façade fire, Ulsan, South Korea, 8th October 2020, in which nearly a hundred people...
Cigarette ignition resistance will be legally required for all furniture sold in the USA. The provision is included in the 1.4 billion US$ US Covid relief package, finally signed by Donald Trump at the end of December. Six months from enactment of the bill, the...
