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Noticeboards are naturally sited in corridors and places where the greatest number of people will see the information on display. Spread of fire is of particular concern within schools, and due to the typical coverage of notice boards within school corridors they need to be assessed as fabric of the building and not simply loose inventory.

Did you know...that contained within the ‘Official Buildings Regulations’ with which all public buildings must comply, specific reference is made to the Fire Retardancy of materials used to line walls in areas of sensitivity or risk? When a notice board, whether covered or uncovered is being installed in a school corridor, stairwell or escape route then the product needs to have a sufficiently limited contribution to fire growth i.e. be “fire retardant”. The logical reason behind this type of regulation is to allow occupants of a building adequate time to exit safely in the event of a Fire and to do so without the materials involved accelerating that Fire. Noticeboards and where they are generally sited, present a particular risk – yet most have no fire retardant properties at all.