FIREX International 2018 Specification advice
With no shortage of products available, and many suppliers and technical complexities to understand, specification for effective fire safety can be difficult to get right. Where passive fire safety is concerned, my advice would be to
focus firstly on the following key points.
Choosing a supplier When you start to look at suppliers of products for fire stopping, they will all offer many compelling marketing statements based around the fire performance of their products. With the importance of third party certification, it is important to ensure that you look into these claims – they should be verified against a test report or alternatively confirmed via an engineering report or global assessments. Look for manufacturers or suppliers that can provide you with expert guidance, robust test data and relevant certifications. Furthermore, if they have experience of
working in your geographic region, they should be able to understand the regulatory requirements to achieve the necessary approval from authorities. This can provide real added value as you seek to progress your building project.
How do various products work with your designs?
Choosing the right passive fire products is a critical process, to ensure that the outcome can achieve the required level of fire resistance. When specifying pipe wraps for example, it is often necessary to make sure that the proposed system can accommodate the variation of service sizes and combinations to be encountered. The ability of any particular sealing system to maintain the performance of a separating element is also dependent on the material composition, geometry and thermal behaviour of the element being used, from high density polyethylene (HDPE), polypropylene (PP) and other pipe materials such as unplasticised polyvinyl chloride (PVCu). Manufacturers should be able to offer fire door seals that have been specifically paired and fully tested with their doorsets.
Level of fire resistance needed A competent supplier should be able to help you with this and to understand the regulatory requirements you need to meet. It’s critical that you are clear on the requirements and that you have access to independent test evidence to demonstrate the correct level of fire resistance for each component.
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