Passive Fire Protection
Importance of Firestopping
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The role and importance of firestopping within a building when correctly specified and installed compliantly saves lives, damage to property and expensive asset by restricting the movement of flames, smoke and toxic gases within a confined area known as your fire compartmentation designed to provide safe evacuation until the fire services arrive to extinguish the fire and investigate the source, origin of the ignition.
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Its pivotal the compartments resistance is maintained and is often breached by new service penetrations, or existing firestopping being opened up, and left unprotected allowing easy passage of fire and smoke to escape the fire rated compartment causing a risk to lives, damage to the building and possibly the structural integrity beyond the protected compartment zones.
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Firestopping has a broad range of products tested to provide fire resistance ratings such as EI30 to EI120 and above. All products have been designed and tested to be installed to fire walls, floor, ceilings, wall cavities to contain the spread of fire and smoke using industry certified products such as horizontal, vertical cavity barriers, fire batt, pillows, mastic, putty pads all tested on rigid and flexible wall and floor types.
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Our firestopping services include early engagement meetings with designers, architects to coordinate the material selection process on new build, refurbishment, project focusing on the performance limitations within the test data on key areas such as fire wall material type ( board type and thickness, double skin, single skin etc. ) damper selection and wall type, board type and spacing’s, size of the M&E service penetration spacings, as the sizes conflict between wall manufacture and seal manufacture resulting in steel box sections, columns, H frames being installed to maintain the wall integrity.
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Services
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Intrusive Fire Protection Surveys & Reports
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Passive Fire Protection Recommendations
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Passive Fire Protection Remediations
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Passive Fire Protection Installation
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Please contact info@trendbps.co.uk for any early engagement discussions regarding our passive fire protetcion services or alternatively call Trend Building & Protection Services direct on 01772 485398
Compartmentation Surveys
Fire compartment surveys are critical in being able to understand the condition and extent of fire compartments and corrective actions and cost associated with correcting these. The need for a survey is pivotal if no historic independent reports or existing as built information is available. In procuring a detailed intrusive survey this allows the responsible person to have live data on the quantity of non compliant issues and look to implement intermediate measure to reduce the risk.
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The Survey can take several days dependent on the number of fire wall, service penetrations and unrestricted, planned access to below and above the ceiling. The report is compiled using a APP based software, to which a existing layout drawing, ideally the fire strategy of the building's will be uploaded and numbered pins dropped in the locations defects have been identified. These defects are tagged with the pin number and supported by photos, summary of defects and recommendations that can be converted to a PDF report and sent over electronically.
When the report is received reviewed and depending on the extent of non compliance its usually a good time to update your RA and look to install further measures to manage the risk and ensure and a corrective program, timeline is recorded to target compliance.
Please contact info@trendbps.co.uk for any early engagement discussions regarding compartment surveys or alternatively call Trend Building & Protection Services direct on 01772 485398
Service Penetrations
The most common of the non compliance issues is the service penetration and how its been incorrectly managed and recorded in constantly evolving public, healthcare, and education sectors due to the significant increase in technologies, requirement to change, improve and increase the size and services to that accommodate public services. Within the Healthcare sector alone over a 25 year period you expect somewhere in the regions of over 5000 changes to the original building within that 25 year period to support the clinical pressures and change in working environment.
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Why is Firestopping required
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Fire stopping is required to control the spread of fire through the use of fire-rated compartmentation of a building. Although without adequate fire stopping materials in place, fire and smoke can quickly travel through a building, causing serious damage to property and risk to life. It is also vital to protect fire rescue personnel. Therefore, compartmentation is usually required for floors, walls, and ceilings to ensure that the integrity of the rating is maintained.
Suppose cables or pipes breach fire-resisting elements. In that case, gaps must be sealed to ensure that the penetrations do not cause a decrease in the integrity of the resisting material. Further examples can be caused by ventilation or heating and cooling systems, conduit, and ducts.
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The British Standard BS7671-2018 titled sealing and wiring regulations is described where a wiring system passes through elements of building construction such as floors, walls, roofs, ceilings, partitions or cavity barriers, the openings remaining after passage of the wiring system shall be sealed according to the degree of fire-resistance, prescribed for the respective element of building construction before penetration.”
Whilst BS 7671:2018 states that fire stopping is a requirement, it does not detail how it should be carried out or who should do it when these scenario arise its important to engage with an approved manufacturer to provide technical support, certified options tested to BS EN 1366 and the variations of details to support the cable material, sizes , spacings and containment types are compliantly sealed or alternatively contact Trend Building & Protection Services to manage this service.
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Please contact info@trendbps.co.uk for any early engagement discussions regarding passive fire protection penetrations seals or alternatively call Trend Building & Protection Services direct on 01772 485398
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Linear Gap Seals
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Linear gap seals can play a crucial role in stopping the spread of fire and smoke by effectively sealing linear gaps and joints in buildings or structures. These seals are designed to prevent the passage of air, gas, fire and smoke between building compartments.
This makes linear gap sealing an essential component of modern passive fire protection systems designed to enhance occupant safety and minimise property damage during a fire.
Our linear gap sealing products are proven to provide fire resistance performance through fire resistance testing, while helping reduce noise transmission.
Explore our range of linear gap seals and discover the support, expertise, and resources available.
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