The engineering of smoke and fire protection in shopping centres or malls in recent years involve the use of a central or multiple atria to act as a smoke reservoirs.

The smoke and fire protection solutions within a shopping centre, work via the effective channelling of smoke to these smoke reservoirs by creating a form of channelling barrier, sometimes glass but more and more often curtains.

BLE have installed many Smoke Protection Systems in Shopping Centres throughout the world both as smoke reservoir curtains and as smoke channelling curtains.