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 […]
Featuring a speaker line up including Dame Judith Hackitt and renowned journalist and author Peter Apps, Harmony Fire’s latest Housing Leaders’ Summit moved to Edinburgh, as The Scotsman Hotel played host to a day of learning, collaboration and sharing best practice. Themed around the subject of innovation, keynote speaker and author of the independent review […]
The recently introduced Procurement Act 2023 is a solid piece of legislation that clearly benefits from considered collaboration between public and private sector organisations. Bringing simplification and greater transparency to public procurement is a win-win situation and this ethos shines through in Sections 16 and 17 of the Act, where there is an open invitation […]
Hans Mitchell, Client Relations Director at Harmony Fire Watching the footage of a recent fire at a block of flats in Bethnal Green provides a stark reminder that for those of us working in the arena of ‘risk management’, operating under a mindset of chronic unease is one of our most effective guiding principles. The […]