The Chancellor’s keynote budget speech did not have the smoothest starts following the mistimed release of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) Economic and Fiscal Outlook document, which gave the nation’s media and the wider public a major spoiler hours in advance of the Autumn Budget. Despite these technical challenges, Rachel Reeves was on her […]
It’s entirely natural for any organisation to feel uneasy when data challenges long-held beliefs and operating practices. Yet in the arena of life-safety, such defensiveness carries serious moral, legal, and reputational risks, not to mention the potential harm to residents living in affected buildings across the UK. Life safety specialists share a simple motivation: to […]
Auro by Harmony is launching its latest IoT (Internet of Things) life-safety product at Homes UK. Auro Lume is a plug-and-play self-testing emergency lighting system that eliminates the need for manual inspections, providing 24/7 auditable golden thread compliance data on the system’s operational readiness. Launched as the newly updated BS 5266-1:2025 standard for emergency lighting […]
The City of Edinburgh Council has awarded a £61 million fire safety contract to leading UK fire protection specialist, Harmony Fire. The contract encompasses 30 multi-storey residential buildings across the city centre, which will undergo a comprehensive programme of fire safety upgrades. Procured via the Prosper Passive Fire Safety Framework, the scheme represents one of […]
Conjuring up images of Dickensian London or the Blitz era, the term ‘waking watch’ is the historical phrase that emerged in the immediate post-Grenfell Tower disaster era. A verbal reference from another time to mark our systemic failure to construct and maintain buildings that are inherently safe for residents. Not quite the last resort of […]