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
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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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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
Convection
Radiation
Conduction
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Test Measurements
Firestop products are tested on the following
criteria:
Heat
Heat
Flames
Gases
Gases
Flames
Insulation
Integrity:
Measures the ability
of an element to
insulate, i.e. time taken
for the non fire side
to reach180°
Measures the ability of a
product to
prevent gas and
flame to pass
through in a fire
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.
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Firestop Cushions
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Firestop Bricks
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Firestop Expanding Sealant
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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@hilti.com
07802 205 754
www.hilti.co.uk
0161 886 100
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