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Ensuring Fire Compliance An Action Plan

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.

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Ensuring Fire Compliance An Action Plan

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  1. Ensuring Fire Compliance An Action Plan Clive Reilly Checkmate Fire Solutions

  2. An Important Question Why are new buildings not always fire compliant?

  3. Case Study

  4. 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.

  5. Ground Floor Kitchen Area

  6. Lifts 1st Floor 3rd Floor

  7. Fire Walls

  8. Fire Walls

  9. Fire Walls

  10. Raised Floor Barriers

  11. Ducts, Dampers, M&E

  12. Ducts, Dampers, M&E

  13. Protection of Structural Steel

  14. Fire Doors “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) 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

  15. Door Gaps

  16. Fire Doors - Gaps

  17. Fire Doors - Gaps

  18. Fire Doors - Gaps

  19. Hinge Intumescents

  20. Fire Doors – Hinge Intumescents

  21. Fire Doors – Hinge Intumescents

  22. Fire Doors – Protecting for the life of the building Pictures courtesy of Intastop Ltd

  23. Ensuring Fire Compliance What can be done to ensure that fire compliance is built in?

  24. 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.

  25. Ensure products are correctly installed

  26. Select the right contractor

  27. Select the right contractor

  28. Select the right contractor

  29. Permit to Work Specific to fire compartmentation. Provides a record of works. Informsthe contractor of your requirements. Prompts an inspection of finished works before payment is made.

  30. 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

  31. Inspect the finished works

  32. . . . on-site inspection &compliant handover

  33. Quality Assurance CONFORMITY: We confirm that the products identified within the project specification have been installed in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations.

  34. Checkmate - providing practicalfire & smokecontainment solutions “doing it the right way, first time around, will always be the most cost-effective course of action”. (ASFP Red Book) www.checkmatefire.com

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