The smoke shaft system will be fitted in the two towers, home to 762 apartments, reaching 40 and 50 storeys into London’s skyline. The system will ventilate the common corridors at each level, ...

Besides, experts said, there must be a second line of power to activate the smoke extraction system the minute the smoke-detector went off. It will also power the lights in the evacuation route.

This story is from April 14, 2009 'Most city buildings lack ventilating systems' TNN / Apr 14, 2009, 00:43 IST AA Follow us ...

After the fire in Bhandara civil hospital in January last year in which 10 newborns died, the civic body has decided to set up smoke filtration systems in the intensive care units of major hospitals.