Pakistan’s textile industry is the backbone of its export economy — and one of the most fire-intensive industrial environments in the country. Spinning halls filled with cotton fibre, dyeing and finishing units running high-temperature chemical processes, storage bays packed with finished fabric, and electrical infrastructure operating at industrial scale all contribute to a fire risk […]
Author: Sakhi Ahmed
A shopping mall on a busy weekend in Pakistan — LuckyOne Mall in Karachi, Dolmen Mall in Lahore, or any of the Imtiaz superstore locations across the country — can hold tens of thousands of visitors simultaneously. These buildings are designed to maximise open, column-free retail space, which creates a fire containment challenge that is […]
When a fire breaks out in a hospital, the consequences are unlike any other building type. Patients in ICUs, operating theatres, and recovery wards cannot walk to the nearest exit. Many are sedated, immobile, or connected to life support. Medical oxygen lines run through walls and ceilings. Electrical loads from diagnostic equipment, ventilators, and imaging […]
A data centre fire is not like any other building fire. The assets inside — servers, switching equipment, storage arrays, power infrastructure — are irreplaceable in the short term and represent billions of rupees of capital investment. The data they hold — financial records, citizen databases, telecommunications routing tables, security system logs — is more […]
Karachi is building upward. Civil Lines, Shahrah-e-Faisal, DHA, Clifton, and PECHS are seeing a generation of high-rise residential towers, commercial plazas, and mixed-use developments that did not exist a decade ago. With vertical density comes a fire safety challenge that is fundamentally different from low-rise construction — and the central solution to that challenge is […]