Published May 16, 2018
BBC North West have featured the £5 million Protect24 retrofitting of fire spinklers in Greater Manchester.
The pioneering project will see hundreds of homes retrospectively fitted with fire protection measures across 17 tower blocks in the North West.
Landlord ForViva felt their tenants had to be protected in the light of the Grenfell Tower tragedy and wasted no time in appointing Protect24 as their preferred provider of retrospective fire protection measures.
These plans include the retrofitting of fire sprinklers to residents homes inside tower blocks ranging from 10-to-20-storeys in height.
ForViva Group Deputy Chief Executive Colette McKune, said: “Legally we are not obliged to do it, it is not part of the regulations, we do not have to retrospectively fit sprinkler systems. However the board of the organisation decided that we believe it is the right thing to do in light of Grenfell.”
BBC North West Senior reporter Andy Gill spent the day with a film crew on site in Eccles talking to Protect24 team members and officials from ForViva, as well as meeting residents living in the newly protected block.
Eccles resident Jim Gallagher is one of the first residents to benefit from the retrospective work to fit sprinkler systems and he told the BBC North West reporter he felt safe now in his home.
Mr Gallagher. said: “I thought I would be safer and now it is in, I lfeel a lot safer.”
The Protect24 team will have provided fire protecion measures to hundres of homes in Eccles and Salford by the end of the summer of 2018 before moving onto Knowsley for the first phase of the works, due to be completed by March 2019.
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