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EditorWilliam Roszczykintroduces this month’s edition


ELCOME TO the April 2020 issue of F&RM, which focuses on heritage buildings, with sub themes of heritage refurbishment, fire service innovation


and lessons from history. After the shock of the Notre-Dame fi re last year, the threat


to our historical buildings and places highly signifi cant to heritage and history was brought to the forefront of many people’s minds. Of course the fi re sector was only too aware of this challenge, and the key is for companies that are refurbishing or renovating such important places to ensure that they and others stay safe and to keep the building (and often priceless contents) protected from fi re. In this issue, we have three articles analysing heritage building fi re risks through the prism of refurbishment. Ramtech’s John Newbury looks at the importance of protecting historic and heritage structures during refurbishment works, before Hyfi re’s Paul Parkes states that as wireless fi re detection and alarm technologies have continued to improve, they have begun to be the top choice for heritage buildings. Lastly, in order to preserve and maintain heritage buildings


ISSN 1757-1324


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during renovation work, Bull Products’ Bradley Markham proposes that fire safety needs to be top of the agenda. We also have one article under the header ‘Lessons from history’, extending our backward facing focus. Tracie Williams from Evident Software points out Grenfell parallels to the Marchioness disaster, and how recommendations from the inquiry cannot be ignored going forward if we are to prevent more deaths. Next, in a forward looking shift,we continue our look


at innovations in the fi re and rescue service being brought by new technologies and the need to adapt both facilitating and challenging established ways of operating and thinking. Pailton Engineering’s Roger Brereton investigates potential changes when it comes to redesigning emergency vehicles for modern streets; while the need for fire and rescue services to successfully adapt must focus on external threats and changing mindsets, argue Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service’s Ben Brook and PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ Andy Theedom and Hugo Warner. Meanwhile, our sole current affairs piece this month


sees Firexo’s Dave Breith share his belief that technological innovations mean that the time to update fire protection advice in the catering industry is now. It’s also probably worth acknowledging the elephant in the


room, so to speak – as I write this, the coronavirus pandemic is causing upheaval and concern worldwide, with our sector by no means unaffected. I’m sure I speak for most of you when I say I hope that government actions, and business as well as individual moves to contain the impact, help everything return to some sort of normal as soon as possible. The magazine will be produced as planned unless anything changes, and as always, if you’d like to contribute, email me at wroszczyk@thefpa.co.uk. Stay safe and wash your hands!


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