Why Should I Firestop?

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Welcome to the Firestop Seminar
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Firestop Products Agenda for this Presentation

• The need for Compartmentation
• The Legal Guidance framework for Firestop
  products.
• How fire and smoke spread.
• Testing How Firestop Products Work
• Third Party Accreditation Products Installers
• The right stuff
• Myths of the Industry
• The wrong stuff
• Getting it right reducing your liability.

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What is Firestopping?Compartmentation
Fire walls
Fire Floors
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Compartmentation-breaches
Fire Rated Wall or Floor
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Over expensive Fire doors in the suspended
ceiling!
Risk Penetrations not sealed
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• Legislation, Regulations Codes of Practice
• Building Regulations /Building Standards(Scotland)
  
• Approved Document B / Technical Handbooks
• Fire (Scotland) Act 2005
• -Fire Safety (Scotland) regulations 2006
• CDM 2007
• LPC (Loss Prevention Council) Code of Practice
  for the Construction of Buildings
• Joint Code of Practice on Fire Prevention on
  Construction Sites
• IEE 16th Regulations
• Firecode, HTM 81, 83, 85, 86 for hospitals

• Different documents same message
• Compartmentation as early as possible and
  maintained for life of building
• Fire, insulation, smoke
• Firestopping
• 3rd party certification of product and
  installation

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Approved Document B
Proprietary fire-stopping and sealing systems,
(including those designed for service
penetrations) which have been shown by test to
maintain the fire resistance of the wall or other
element, are available and may be used. Other
fire-stopping materials include cement
mortar, gypsum based plaster, cement or
gypsum based vermiculite/perlite mixes, glass
fibre, crushed rock, blast furnace slag or
ceramic based products (with or without resin
binders), and intumescent mastics. These may be
used in situations appropriate to the particular
material. Not all of them will be suitable in
every situation.
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Risk Assessment Guidance

• The government has published a series of guidance
  documents
• There are separate guides for the following
  premises
• large places of assembly
• small and medium places of assembly
• factories and warehouses
• residential care
• sleeping accommodation
• theatres and cinemas
• educational premises
• offices and shops
• outdoor events
• hospital premises
• transport network

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Fire Risk Assessment Responsibility

• Under current UK fire safety legislation, the
  'responsible person-duty holder' - that is the
  owner, manager or employer - must carry out a
  fire safety risk assessment and implement and
  maintain a fire safety management plan.
• The 'responsible person' can potentially face
  fines and imprisonment if something goes
  tragically wrong. Several high profile companies
  and organisations have been fined heavily after
  getting their fire risk assessments wrong.

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Fire Spread
Heated air rises
Radiation
Convection
Conduction
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Test Measurements
Firestop products are tested on the following
criteria
Heat
Heat
Flames
Gases
Gases
Flames
Integrity Measures the ability of a product
to prevent gas and flame to pass through in a fire
Insulation Measures the ability of an element
to insulate, i.e. time taken for the non
fire side to reach180
Both criteria are measured in hours and minutes.
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Standard Firestop Details
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3rd Party Accreditation
PRODUCTS ADB 0.20 Third party accredited
product conformity certification schemes not only
provide a means of identifying . products.
which have demonstrated that they have the
requisite performance in fire, but additionally
provide confidence that the ... products ..
actually supplied are provided to the same
specification or design as that tested/assessed
RRO Guidance Section 8 Third-party
certification schemes for fire protection
products and related services are an effective
means of providing the fullest possible
assurances, offering a level of quality,
reliability and safety that non-certificated
products may lack. Essential Principles
Document Principle 10 As a minimum, all fire
protection products shall be third party
certified to an appropriate product or
performance based standard
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3rd Party Accreditation
INSTALLERS ADB 0.20 Third party accreditation
.. of installers of .. provide a means of
ensuring that installations have been conducted
by knowledgeable contractors to appropriate
standards, thereby increasing reliability of the
anticipated performance in fire.
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• Examples of Firestop Products

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CP 670 Installation
All exposed mineral wool surfaces must be
buttered with mastic
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Firestop Mortar Installation
NB Pipe insulation has to be removed prior to
pour or fit CP 645 Firesleeves to replace
insulation
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2nd Fix After all cables and sockets in wall
sealed up and sockets on other wall put in. Putty
pads put to inside of backbox.
International Firestop Training
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Firestop Cushions
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Firestop Bricks
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Firestop Foams

• Firestop foams are unsuitable for general
  firestopping solutions.

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Examples of poor Firestopping
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Fire collar not fixed properly. It will fall off
in a fire.
Wrong size of fire collar.
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Recent Examples
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Considerations for NHS premises wishing to
minimise their firestop liabilities?

• Identify any firestopping issues through the risk
  assessment procedure.
• Appoint contractors who understand and have been
  trained to install firestop products correctly
  consider Accredited Contractors.
• Will contractors supply a written log of each
  application and the products used in each
  application?

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Hilti Firestop Services

• Engineering Judgements
• NBS Specifications
• Standard Details
• Site visits
• Technical advice
• Training for FIRAS Accredited Contractors
• Training for non FIRAS Accredited Contractors

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Contact Details for Hilti Firestop

• Alastair.obrien_at_hilti.com
• 07802 205 754
• www.hilti.co.uk
• 0161 886 100