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 […]
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 […]
The Industry Competence Committee (ICC) was set up in September 2023 to provide strategic leadership, advice and encouragement on matters of competence to the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) and the construction industry. It’s inaugural annual report has now been published. With industry competence a central criticism emerging from all post-Grenfell Tower inquiries and reports, this […]