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protect people, buildings and businesses, ensuring continuity and productivity. Automatic systems offer the business owner
reliable, long lived and proven technology to help reduce the risk to life and the degree of damage in a fire event. They make buildings and businesses resilient to fire incidents because they activate automatically, and control or extinguish a fire before the FRS arrives. The impacted business can be back up and running very quickly, avoiding both economic and social costs. The contrast between two buildings with and without a sprinkler system in a fire can be stark. In the event of a fire, many businesses with sprinklers suffer a minor interruption and are back up and running in a matter of hours; while those without, can see five to six times the damage and suffer longer interruption. Truly sustainable buildings should be resilient to fire and sprinkler systems are proven to be the most effective means of fire protection. Perhaps awards for sustainable buildings should go to those with such protection
Iain Cox is chair of the Business Sprinkler Alliance. For more information, view page 3
References
1. Home Office Fire Statistics – Other Buildings Fires Dataset, HM Government.
2. Efficiency and Effectiveness of Sprinkler Systems in the United Kingdom: An Analysis from Fire Service Data, Optimal Electronics, May 2017.
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