Recent News & Press

WOBO recognises the intent of the Scottish Government. The Scottish Government has unveiled its intention to cut emissions from the built environment by 68% by 2030 through a £1.8bn investment plan to transform the nation’s building stock to net-zero by 2045. The Scottish Government has...

WOBO encourages professionals to keep in touch with fire developments. In the latest episode of the Fire Protection Association’s (FPA) Assembly Point podcast, Managing Director, Jonathan O’Neil OBE, explores the introduction of the new Building Safety Bill with three fire safety experts to find out...

Insultation gets an airing! “A good insulation always knows its limitations….” After all these decades thermal performance should be pretty non-controversial.  How complicated can it be to insulate a building and make it airtight?  The physics is pretty straightforward.  But then you get salespeople and...

An energy problem?? Only one in eight (13 percent) of people in the UK admit that the energy efficiency of their home was something they seriously considered when they bought it, according to new research from EEIG (The Energy Efficiency Infrastructure Group). Whilst this figure rises...

WOBO recognises the initiatives being planned for the future. Dozens of big-name businesses across some of the world’s highest emitting and hardest to decarbonise sectors have signed up to new multi-trillion-dollar pathways for reaching net-zero by 2050. The Mission Possible Partnership (MPP), supported financially by...

WOBO supports International Fire Safety. A global coalition of over 80 fire safety leadership organisations has today (Monday 11 October) launched a new Decade of Action for Fire Safety 2022-2032, to ensure an internationally consistent approach to the safety and management of buildings, infrastructure and more...

Green – Nuclear Energy! A group of ten EU countries, led by France, have asked the European Commission to recognise nuclear power as a low-carbon energy source that should be part of the bloc’s decades-long transition towards climate neutrality. A group of ten EU countries, led...

Disabled residents are not a minority issue! In the UK, over 14 million people have a disability. Although a proportion will have been disabled since birth or early childhood, many will have developed impairments over their lifetime through illness or injury. Cognitive and physical impairments...

WOBO thanks Modern Building Services for the link to the article by Alex Bardett. Riser shafts feature so prominently in high rises, yet when it comes to understanding what they are and why they are needed from a fire protection perspective, there are misconceptions. There are,...