One third of UK underwriters are willing to cover fire safety risks in building works to replace defective cladding, and nearly all of the remaining two thirds offer only partial coverage. Three quarters considered that the UK construction industry has not yet learnt...
A new 4% yearly tax on property developers’ profits will fund building fire safety remediation for the coming decade. The tax, announced in the Government’s budget, aims to raise UK£ 2 to 5 billion to remove and replace dangerous building cladding materials, following...
Transport for London (TfL) has banned electric scooters on buses and the underground because of fire risks for batteries. This follows a fire on a tube train (Parsons Green, 1/11/21), which caused the train to be evacuated and where the scooter continued to burn after...
1% POSS significantly improved fire performance achieved by a phosphorus – nitrogen intumescent FR in polypropylene. Nano- octavinyl POSS (polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane) was supplied by Zhengzhou Alfa. The intumescent PIN FR was produced by thermal reaction of...
Flame retardants can reduce the fire risk of the liquid carbonate-based electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries. Two PIN flame retardants (phenoxycylophosphazene, melamine phosphate) and tris (2-chloropropyl) phosphate were tested in a battery electrolyte consisting of...
