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The British Automatic Fire Sprinkler Association is the UK's oldest and biggest trade association for the fire sprinkler industry and its members install more than 85% of the sprinkler installations in the UK and many also design and install watermist systems.

Hot on the heels of the launch issue of Fire Sprinkler News from BAFSA is issue No 2. Innovative developments in the fire sprinkler industry in recent weeks will make interesting reading.

August Newsletter 3rd August 2011
   

QUICK LINKS


BAFSA Local Authority Seminar, Warrington, 7th September... more

BAFSA Autumn Members' Meeting, Warrington, 7th September…more

Recent developments in Watermist: 18TH & 19TH OCTOBERmore

BAFSA statement on non-compliant fire suppression systemsmore

Find a BAFSA Member … more

 

NEWS:

September: Revision of Technical Guide No 1 will be published

BAFSA AGM & DINNER 16th November: Marriott Worsley Park, Manchester

Nationwide Fire has completed another project for our armed forces in action in one of the world's  theatres of war…more


CT CONTRACTS 2011 – IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The government has announced that Part 8 of the Act to allow parties'to make the transition ready for 1st October 2011. Therefore, construction contracts entered into from 1st October 2011 will need to be made using the JCT Contracts 2011.   The JCT Contracts 2011 are expected to be published in early September, ahead of the implementation of Part 8 of the Act to allow parties' to make the transition ready for 1st October 2011.   Although published in September, JCT Contracts 2011 should not be used prior to the implementation date of Part 8 of the Act.   For any further details please contact Andrew Milner at Integritam email andrewmilner@integritam.com.


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BUSINESS SPRINKLER ALLIANCE - BSA

Over the past two years BAFSA has adopted a policy of constructive engagement with a number of other organisations which have similar objectives to our own.   One of the groups we are working with, and indeed form part of, is the Business Sprinkler Alliance more
9 BILLION LITRES OF WATER WASTED A YEAR

Simply installing fire sprinklers in commercial and industrial buildings would save England and Wales over 9 billion litres of water every year in fire prevention. That is the shock finding of new research carried out by international assessment group Bureau Veritas … more
ENVIRONMENTAL NECESSITY FOR GREATER USE OF SPRINKLER SYSTEMS

Iain Cox, chairman of the BSA and Chief Fire Officer for the Royal Berkshire Fire & Rescue Service said "As the recent M1 fire and last year's factory fire in Livingston showed, fire losses are felt right across the economy.  They cost the UK £3.4 million every day,"… more
CARE HOME FIRE SAFETY COULD BE IMPROVED

The news, uncovered by a BBC investigation that 29 care homes in London have been ordered to improve after failing to achieve basic fire safety standards illustrates once more how legislation is failing the most vulnerable in our society… more
CFPA-INTERNATIONAL ON RESIDENTIAL FIRE SPRINKLERS

The Confederation of Fire Protection Associations-International (CFPA-I), a collective of leading fire protection organisations has passed a resolution on fire sprinklers in residential occupancies....more
STUDY ALSO SHOWS FIRE SPRINKLERS DRASTICALLY CUT AIR POLLUTION

The BSA/Bureau Veritas study estimates that the benefit of installing sprinklers in all commercial and industrial buildings in England and Wales, would be a reduction in total carbon emissions in the order of 144,000 to 348,000 tons CO2 per annum … more

SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT TECHNICAL HANDBOOK 2011 – NON DOMESTIC

The Scottish Government now states "in the event of an outbreak of fire within the building, fire growth will be inhibited by the operation of an automatic fire suppression system. This standard applies only to enclosed shopping centres; residential care buildings; high rise domestic buildings; the whole or part of sheltered housing complexes; school buildings... more
   
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