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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