Fire safety building standards present a significant challenge and have acted as a barrier to the development of the building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) market. This creates a complex landscape ...

NEW YORK, March 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Bureau Veritas, a world-leader in Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) services, announced it has expanded its elevator division service offerings to ...

Global safety science company UL and Saudi-based GCC Electrical Testing Laboratory (GCC Labs) have signed a MoU aimed at localising fire and safety services and establishing a façade testing lab in ...

A research centre in Dammam that could make façades more fireproof and help save lives will be built by UL and GCC Labs. UL, a US firm that provides safety certification services has signed a ...

Masdar and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft advised that they will be collaborating to construct a façade test centre (FTC) in Masdar City. Fraunhofer’s Institute for Building Physics IBP and Fraunhofer ISE ...

Each test room within the building will be instrumented to enable calculation of the energy code values, thermal and light transmission properties and overall performance of each facade under test.

Buildings are having façades and cladding replaced in order to comply with the UAE’s updated Fire and Life Safety Code. The regulation’s latest version came out in 2018 and has brought about “major ...