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Fire Compliant Consulting for Fire Door Compliance and Improving Building Product Fire Performance
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With the complexity of large-scale contracts, sometimes co-ordination between trades can have unforeseen consequences.
A large office re-fit project in central London had installed more than three hundred new FD30 and FD60 door sets. Fully certified, well made and well installed. After these doors were installed, and the doors package was complete, the access control company looked to install mag-lock systems to across the site.
Having drilled through the door leaf, to install the armature plate, the access control company had impacted the fire integrity of the doors and the Building Control officer required confidence and evidence, that these doors were still compliant fire doors.
We were asked to initially assess the impact that had been made to the existing door certification, recommend remedial action and then reclassify the fire doors as Notional Fire Doors under BS 8412-1.
Works that were required including removing the armature plates, repairing the bolt holes with an assessed and approved repair method, instating the fire rated mag lock and armature plates in a new configuration that didn’t impact on the fire integrity of the door.
Our role in initial investigation, creating an engineered assessment and signing off on works after they had been completed by the client’s chosen contractor enabled the doors to be re-classified as Notional FD30 and FD60 doors and for Building Control to accept and approve this section of work.