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Quality street What does the future hold for fire safety standards in construction? Alistair Murray and David Stow examine issues in this complex area and point to a way to help achieve quality
other formal review processes are underway, both in terms of our current building stock, the UK Building Regulations and the design and construction process as a whole. The way in which we design, procure, build and operate buildings is under the spotlight and the court of public opinion is waiting to see how the industry responds. But in trying to work out how the UK construction industry should respond, it can feel incredibly complex and even overwhelming. And the word complex is a very important one when we consider safety in the built environment. There are so many stakeholders, technical disciplines and stages in developing a design and going on then to construct that design, that it requires care, attention and skill every step of the way.
T Key translations
From a fire safety perspective there are a number of key translations required:
18 OCTOBER 2018
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HIS IS a complex and important time in the UK construction industry. It is a time when various formal investigations and
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translating the fi re strategy into detailed design information
translating this into construction information
translating this into high quality, compliant, on site activity and implementation processes
translating this into the fi nal verifi cation and validation of all passive and active fi re safety systems
translating relevant fi re test evidence into compliant, on site, fi re safe installation
• and ultimately translating all of this into a fi nal integrated, compliant and quality assured construction form
This all has to happen correctly and competently before the building can be safely handed over and occupied. To understand whether this is happening at the moment, we have drawn on our experience regarding the various stages involved in this process to create a building: and in particular our experience of the quality condition and safety culture of those stages. Based on these experiences, we have identified a number
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