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Ensuring Fire Compliance
An Action Plan
Clive Reilly Checkmate Fire Solutions
An Important Question
Why are new buildings not always fire compliant?
Case Study
Fire Strategy
The fire strategy addresses life safety under the Building Regulations, and the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order, but not fire risk assessments, which are the client's responsibility.It does not specifically address either property protection, or business disruption. Building insurers should be consulted over the proposals since their preferences are sometimes more onerous.
Ground Floor Kitchen Area
Lifts
1st Floor
3rd Floor
Fire Walls
Fire Walls
Fire Walls
Raised Floor Barriers
Ducts, Dampers, M&E
Ducts, Dampers, M&E
Protection of Structural Steel
“The installation of a fire door is a complex procedure requiring a detailed understanding of the important role played by eachcomponent & therefore needs to be undertaken by someone with the correct training”.
(BWF-CERTIFIRE)
Fire Doors
Norman Macdonald, BRE Principal Consultant, checking upgraded fire
doors at Ormskirk Hospital
It is estimated by BWF Certifire that more than 80% of installed one hour fire doors will in reality not provide one hour fire rating
Door Gaps
Location Dimension
Door edge gaps Representative of those tested but as a guideline, a minimum of 2mm and a maximum of 4mm
Alignment tolerances
Leaves must not be proud of each other or from the door frame by more than 1mm
Threshold 10mm between bottom of leaf and top of floor covering
Fire Doors - Gaps
Fire Doors - Gaps
Fire Doors - Gaps
Hinge Intumescents
Element Dimensions (mm) Location
Bracket40 x 35 x 25 with 3 mounting holes for
minimum 25mm long steel screws
1 No per leaf in frame head – 100mm from closing edge
Intumescent protection
Leaf Edge Seals
2 No 15 x 4 Lorient Palusol 100P or
Type 617
Fitted 5mm either side of the centre line of the leaf hanging
edges and head
Hinge Blades
1mm thick Interdens Under both blades
Lipping6 – 18 thick
Hardwood min density 640 kg/m3
All leaf edges
Fire Doors – Hinge Intumescents
Fire Doors – Hinge Intumescents
Fire Doors – Protecting for the life of the building
Pictures courtesy of Intastop Ltd
Ensuring Fire Compliance
What can be done to ensure that fire compliance is built in?
Specification
• Talk to the experts.
• Be clear on what is required.
• Specify exactly what is required
and issue as a part of the Tender
process.
Ensure products are correctly installed
Select the right contractor
Select the right contractor
Select the right contractor
Permit to Work
Specific to fire compartmentation.
Provides a record of works.
Informs the contractor of your requirements.
Prompts an inspection of finished works before payment is made.
Ensure what is specified is installed
“PU foams tested as linear gap seals cannot be used to seal pipe or cable penetrations unless they have been tested in that end-use application”
Association for Specialist Fire Protection
Inspect the finished works
. . . on-site inspection &
compliant handover
Quality Assurance
CONFORMITY: We confirm that the products identified within the project specification have been installed in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations.
“doing it the right way, first time around, will always be the most cost-effective course of
action”.
(ASFP Red Book)
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