If you’re currently working on a project and are worried you’re missing one of these pillars, we can assist you.
As an end-to-end passive fire protection provider for major commercial and civic projects, we’ve identified three essential pillars that must be considered for a build to meet its fire safety requirements at each stage of construction.
Services Request a callbackWhen one of these pillars is left out, it can cause problems down the track. This not can not only delay a build schedule but result in less than acceptable fire safety standards. PROFINSH Fire Protection is one of the only providers that can ensure that your design, build and the documentation that follows meets your fire safety requirements at every stage.
The goal of incorporating passive fire protection at the design stage is to eliminate problems right from the start. This is where all parties can consider all pillars as well as budgets, buildability, time frames, systems, finishes and FRL requirements. Because architects are not specialists in fire protection, they can overlook specifications necessary to meet fire safety code as set by the BCA. Similarly, architects or fire engineers design their solutions and drawings but may not understand the products and their test reports, so it’s often designed wrong.
Another issue we encounter regularly is the lack of consideration for documents required at the end of the project. It’s worth asking if a penetrations register has been designed at the start of the job. There is documentation that should be sent through to the RBS before the build starts.
We can help you register fire system plans before the project starts, offer end-to-end solutions and manage service trades. We can also offer product demonstrations as part of the process.
The build all comes down to planning, communication and collaboration. As your passive fire protection provider, we need to consider how we can get in and out as seamlessly as possible so the rest of your trades can continue the build. Through extensive experience, we know how to work through some of the challenges that come from applying specific products.
It’s our job to uncover details such as the steel and thickness required, connections, where fire protection needs to start and stop, where you need room for expansion, heat transfer and allocating lead times for product delivery, application and clean-up.
Having an independent third-party passive fire protection expert on side during the build phase can give you unbiased recommendations and help you stay ahead of potential issues such as product lead times, labour shortages and staying on schedule during tight timeframes. Plus, if you have difficult passive fire questions come up that need immediate answers, we’re on hand to help you solve the problem.
A critical pillar of passive fire protection, documentation is about mitigating any risk for the future and ensuring a smooth handover between teams. We ensure all requirements are captured to meet Australian standards and we present them in a way that is easy for both Registered Building Surveyors (RBS) and your owners to accept and understand.
Working with PROFINISH Fire Protection will minimise the chance of your documentation being knocked back at the end of the project. We can advise when you should be carrying out an audit/defect report, also allowing enough time to rectify issues before submitting your penetrations register.
We utilise Firedoc to provide central registers with photographic location-referenced evidence reports specific to AS4072.1 compliance. This process ensures a smooth documentation handover. Independent certification also takes the burden from your service trades having to research, assess and certify that every penetration meets the required code.
If you’re currently working on a project and are worried you’re missing one of these pillars, we can assist you.