Passive Fire Protection - Fire Stopping
What is Passive Fire Protection?
As its name suggests, Passive Fire Protection is a form of a fire safety protection that remains dormant within a building during normal conditions but becomes active in a fire situation.
Passive Fire Protection is part of an integral component of a buildings Passive & Active fire protection system, it is designed to contain and slow the spread of fire allowing sufficient time for the occupants to escape using the intended protected escape routes.
Passive Fire Protection is a range of specialist manufactured Fire Stopping products that's installed by accredited Fire Stopping experts.
Fire Compartmentation
Compartmentation is the sub-dividing of a building into small sections through the use of Fire Resistant walls, floors & ceilings. Each separate compartment zone will delay the progress of the fire if installed correctly, protecting fire escape routes & allowing occupants time to escape & reduce the damage to adjoining parts of the building.
Fire Compartmentation Surveys
As part of our Passive Fire Protection service we offer a non-invasive and where required, invasive, Fire Compartmentation Survey to check not only that the intended compartmentation has not been compromised but that it still conforms to its intended use. Ensuring appropriate fire separation throughout a building is one of the most effective but often least considered means of protecting premises and their occupants.
Fire Curtains
Fire Curtains are a fire compartmentation Barrier System which is essential to prevent the rapid spread of fire in concealed spaces within a building. Fire curtain systems have been specially developed to offer easy to install solutions which effectively prevent the spread of fire and smoke within unseen roof spaces and ceiling voids.
We supply, install, maintain & certify both lightweight flexible fire curtains and insulating fire curtains to provide Fire curtains systems from 30 minutes up to 120 minutes fire protection in both occupied and void properties. This includes lofts, ceiling voids and risers.
Our roof void surveys will identify what is needed to ensure buildings meet regulations and that the fire compartment walls below continued with the compartmentation line above the ceiling and below the floor.
In these instances, the Fire Curtain is an ideal solution as it provides a light weight easy to install Firewall barrier which will prevent the spread of fire and smoke and maintain the buildings intended fire strategy compartmentation line.
Cavity Fire Barriers
A Cavity Fire Barrier is a passive fire protection system installed within concealed spaces to prevent the spread of fire and smoke. It acts as a firebreak, maintaining building compartmentation, and often incorporates intumescent materials that expand when exposed to heat to seal gaps. Fire cavity barriers are particularly critical in modern buildings with large façade voids.
Cavity Fire barriers can be installed horizontally and vertically through a verity of applications such as below flooring, cavities within walls and above ceilings to maintain the integrity of the buildings fire compartmentation line & strategy.
Fire Doors
The Purpose of a Fire Door.
Fire Doors play a crucial role in the buildings passive Fire Protection system, it is essential that they are installed and maintained correctly & work as they were designed to do.
A Fire Door that does not close fully will not prevent the spread of Fire & Smoke & could seriously restrict the buildings intended fire escape routes which greatly increases the risk to life & damage to the building.
Fire Doors form part of the buildings Fire Compartmentation Fire Strategy Plan, they are an essential requirement for all public buildings, offices, factories and also required in certain domestic situations to.
