Hospitality developers seeking better aesthetics, safety, and performance are turning to Vallisco for next-generation door solutions. The company, known for its factory-direct aluminum doors and ...

IFSEC Insider Gerda provided a graphic demonstration of the difference in performance between a fully certified fire doorset and a door that had just been upgraded with cold smoke seals. Visitors to ...

In particular, the risk assessment noted an absence of ‘cold smoke seals’, which prevent smoke from leaking in through the edges of a fire door. It said the council’s building control department had ...

The document explains that the performance smoke seals used are the same technology as might be used in smoke leakage-rated fire-resisting doors. Where smoke seals are added for a leakage test, they ...

How do you seal a house from wildfire smoke? You should keep your doors and windows closed when there’s smoke and ash from a fire in the air, the Environmental Protection Agency advises.

NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators sought answers Monday for why safety doors failed to close when fire broke out in a New York high-rise, allowing thick smoke to rise through the tower and kill 17 ...

The inspection, in April, by East Riding Council, found no working smoke detectors, fire doors, smoke seals or fire blankets in the house. Outside doors into the house were also not fitted with ...