Electric gate firm fined after boy fatally crushed An electric gate company has been fined after a six-year-old boy was fatally crushed whilst playing on a sliding gate installed by the company. Leeds Crown Court was told how, on 31 October 2015, the boy was playing with friends...
Toddler struck on the head by falling plank in ‘horrendous’ incident A self-employed builder, Grzegorz Glowacki, has been handed a suspended prison sentence after a three-year-old girl in a pushchair was hit on the head by a falling timber plank in Brighton. The child sustained life-changing injuries after the piece of...
New Principle Fire Engineering Consultant A warm welcome to our new Principal Fire Engineering Consultant, Robert Bidgood, who joined us recently. Robert possesses a wealth of fire engineering expertise and who is looking forward to working with our property management clients in the coming weeks...
Advice Note on Balconies on Residential Buildings Published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government This Advice Note provides advice on the risks arising from balconies on residential buildings. This Advice Note is written for residents and building owners of residential buildings with multiple dwellings...
BS 5839-6: 2019 – Quantum’s Advice This latest Q Briefing has been produced following requests from clients wishing to further understand the practical implications of this new British Standard in relation to existing residential properties and to new / refurbished residential properties. Note: This latest guidance...
Building Water Systems Requiring Disinfections January to May of 2019 saw three different premises, managed by Quantum clients, returning with Legionella results of above 1,000 CFU/L (samples taken by Quantum during Legionella Risk Assessments). As you may be aware 1,000 CFU/L is the Health and...
BS 5839-6 2019 – What has changed? Fire detection and fire alarm systems for buildings. Code of practice for the design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of fire detection and fire alarm systems in domestic premises The BSI’s recent update of the domestic fire detection and alarm system...
Grenfell Tower: Government to pay £200m for safer cladding The government is to cover the £200m bill of replacing Grenfell Tower-type cladding on about 150 private blocks in England with a safer alternative. Housing Secretary James Brokenshire had previously said the bill should be footed by the owners, not...
Qnote – Poor Standards Of Fire Safety In New Build Homes Houses developed by Persimmon Homes and Bellway Homes have potentially dangerous fire safety issues, BBC Watchdog Live has found. New-builds constructed by the firms were sold with missing or incorrectly installed fire barriers, which are designed to inhibit the spread...
External Cladding Inspections Non-loadbearing external cladding systems have for many years been used to increase the thermal performance of multi-storey residential tower blocks and hence the buildings lifespan. Increasingly, these systems are being used in new build with the cladding systems being fixed...