Services

3rd Party Site inspections

• Fire doors, 

Fire rated and Smoke rated doors are essential elements of a building’s passive fire protection system. Unfortunately it’s common for regular everyday use of a fire door to cause deficiencies like clearance issues due to sagging, tears in the fire doors smoke seal, or cracks, holes or breaks in the door itself.

When deficiencies go unnoticed, they often lead to unplanned repair costs, compliance gaps or worse during a fire or smoke emergency.

• Cavity barriers, 

Construction improvement and equipment installations within a building often make keeping up with penetrations in need of fire stopping difficult for building maintenance managers in a variety of industries.

Fire-rated barriers are essential for limiting the spread of fire and smoke during fire-related emergencies when deficiencies in rated barriers go unnoticed. The consequences can be serious.

• Fire stopping

To prevent the spread of smoke, flames and toxic gases all the gaps in walls, floors and ceilings need to be fire stopped. 

These gaps could be from cable and pipe penetrations to ducts, cable trays and door frames.

A correctly fire stopped building allows the people inside the building more time to escape should fire break out. The fire stopping inspection takes into account high risk and evacuation areas.

• Intumescent coatings

Intumescent paints applied to structural steel are important in terms of fire protection. The thickness of the paint is important to its fire protection characteristics. From a safety perspective it is important to ensure that the coating is applied to the relevant thickness specifications and consistently across a surface. Application methods for intumescent paints can vary so checking the paint thickness is imperative from a quality control perspective.

Using Brigantia Inspection services will ensure you save money and retain your reputation and most importantly ensure preservation of life in the even of a fire.

A passive fire protection inspector is an on site independent representative of the client and is responsible for monitoring the installation of the passive fire protection works. 

This provides the quality control measure to ensure that construction is compliant and meets the requirements of the design specification.

Compartmentation Surveys

Tailored Reports based on the current condition of a buildings fire safety status

This service informs building owners and managers of the current condition of existing passive fire protection installed or works required to be installed for the preservation of life ensuring government guidelines are adhered to.

The goal of this survey is to prevent the spread of fire and smoke. This is done by subdividing the building to protect high risk and high value areas and escape routes to prevent huge losses.

Destructive or non destructive surveys can be arranged depending on your requirements with the more detailed destructive survey giving detailed reports on the condition of;

• Fire Doors
• Walls
• Floors
• Roof cavities
• Wall cavities
• Risers and shafts
• Floor cavities and basements

What can be included in the survey;

• Extensive visual inspection of the existing provisions including fire doors, roof cavities, floors, walls, basements, floor and ceiling cavities and risers and shafts were present.
• An assessment of the of the condition of fire doors, compartmentation and subsequent defects in accordance with building regulations guidance, relevant British standards and any site-specific fire strategy information made available.
• A clear action plan outlining locations of defects with photographic evidence and suggested remedial actions to be taken

Consultation Service

Brigantia give advice and guidance on Building regulations, manufacturers of products and Passive Fire Protection Installation Companies.

This service allows clients to better understand their roles and responsibilities in providing buildings and structures that meet the standards required in the UK for passive fire safety.

We at Brigantia know how busy our clients day to day working life is but we also know that passive fire protection is essential for the safety of their buildings and the protection of the people working in them. 

It is our clients responsibility as business owner to ensure their building is protected and as safe as it can be, there are lots of factors that need to be considered before implementing passive fire protection and there are a wide range of fire stopping solutions on the market. Brigantia Fire can make that process cost effective and relevant to current British standards.