Offices & Workplaces
Office buildings use fire-rated glazing along protected corridors, around stair and lift cores, and wherever a glazed partition sits on a compartment…
Sectors
Fire-rated glazing by sector
How fire-rated glazing requirements differ between offices, schools, healthcare, housing and other buildings.
Each sector has its own pattern of fire risks, occupants and inspection regimes. Choose a sector for the services and considerations that usually apply.
Sectors we work in
Schools, Colleges & Universities
Schools and campuses combine long corridors, stairwells, halls and classrooms with glazed screens for supervision and daylight. Many older buildings…
Hospitals & Healthcare
Healthcare buildings rely heavily on compartmentation, because many occupants cannot evacuate quickly and progressive horizontal evacuation moves…
Blocks of Flats
In blocks of flats, fire-rated glazing protects common corridors, stairs and lobbies, and appears around flat entrance doors as fanlights and side…
Hotels & Hospitality
Hotels have sleeping accommodation, long corridors and guests unfamiliar with the building, so protected routes and corridor subdivision doors carry…
Retail & Leisure
Shopping centres, gyms, cinemas and restaurants use fire-rated glazing between units, around service corridors and at back-of-house stairs. Shopfit…
Industrial & Warehouses
Industrial buildings use fire-rated glazing in office-to-warehouse walls, viewing windows, plant room screens and external walls near boundaries.…
Care Homes
Care homes depend on compartmentation and staff-assisted evacuation, often moving residents horizontally away from fire. Glazed doors and screens on…
Student Accommodation
Purpose-built student blocks combine cluster flats, shared kitchens and long corridors, often in taller buildings. Glazed doors, fanlights and…
Public & Civic Buildings
Libraries, council offices, courts, museums and leisure centres often mix heritage fabric with modern extensions. Fire-rated glazing has to meet the…