Since early 2020, the global fire safety sector began to confront the drastic effects of the Covid-19 lockdown and its consequential international disruption and postponement to exhibitions and conferences around the world, including the annual Intersec Dubai Expo. As the…
Welcome to a reunion with Intersec Dubai
After a missing year – 2021 – when the Covid-19 global pandemic was at its height, it is now possible to look forward to welcoming back the major fire-related highlight of the Gulf year – the annual Intersec Show in…
Looking ahead to potential record events
In my Comment page in the last edition of Gulf Fire, I optimistically looked forward to a return to some normality as regards forthcoming exhibitions, seminars and the like, plus the travel to the Middle East involved to get the…
A time for really getting going again
Even as I write my comment page, a reminder came of the constant topic of high-rise fire safety when a serious fire broke out in a tower in the Al Mamoura area of Abu Dhabi City. Fortunately, Abu Dhabi Civil…
Getting back to some near normal activity
Despite the good news of the ever-growing availability of successful vaccines to combat the dominating global effect of Covid-19, the pandemic continues to affect and cause postponements of scheduled fire-related exhibitions and conferences, and other gatherings of fire professionals. Back…
Looking ahead to the restoration of normality
Despite the good news of the development and imminent availability of vaccines to combat the dominating global effect of Covid 19 and its necessary precautions, the pandemic continues to cause further postponements of scheduled fire-related exhibitions and conferences, and other…
Intersec 2021 – A milestone in Covid 19 recovery
As this edition of Gulf Fire goes to press, the world is still recovering from the devastating pandemic caused by the Covid 19 virus. Amongst one of the effects of the virus has been the widespread disruption it has caused…
The Coronavirus legacy and the drive for tower fire safety
When I penned my Editor’s Comment for the April 2020 edition of Gulf Fire, I mentioned that the world was fast coming to terms with the growing impact that Coronavirus (Covid 19) was already having across the entire spectrum of…
A great Intersec 2020 and now the threat of coronavirus
On its 22nd year, Intersec 2020 was held on 19 to 21 January at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, and was again under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and supported…
Intersec Dubai 2020 to set even more records
This issue of Gulf Fire is published to coincide with the 22nd edition of Intersec in Dubai being staged on 19 to 21 January 2020, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Gulf…
Forthcoming mega shows and the legacy of Grenfell Tower
As the end of the second decade of the 21st century draws to a close, the challenges in the Gulf region to provide the highest level of building fire safety and protection never lessens with the approach of bigger and…
Intersec 2019
This edition of Gulf Fire coincides with the 21st edition of Intersec in Dubai which is being staged on 20 to 22 January 2019. Intersec is now well-established as the leading global event of its kind, and the influence and…
The continuing legacy of Grenfell Tower
Readers of Gulf Fire will hopefully recall my comments in the last edition of the magazine regarding the likely global implications of the tragic Grenfell Tower fire in London on 14th June 2017, which despite the heroic work of London…
Tall tower fire safety tops the agenda
The annual Intersec Expo in Dubai in January 2018 was the 20th year of the event that began life so modestly as a local one day table top exhibition two decades ago. The 2018 Intersec event held at the Dubai…
Intersec 2016 and the Address Downtown Hotel fire
I am pleased to relate that the official launch of Gulf Fire successfully took place during the Intersec three day event in Dubai in mid-January. The magazine was very well received by visitors and exhibitors alike during the Intersec show,…
Old fire-safety challenges and a new one
Now that daily life is getting back to something like normality, it seems that the varied pre-Covid challenges facing worldwide fire-safety activity and firefighters have not gone away. The circumstances of the tragic West London Grenfell Tower fire of 2017…