Fire Separations
Fire Separations (Fire Stopping, Fire Doors, Fire/Smoke Dampers)
Almost all buildings require fire separations, these fire separation often exist between floors or separate hazardous areas of a building from common egress and exit paths. Fire Separations also exist to protect certain vulnerable occupancies such as individual suites, detention areas, nursing homes/care facilities and hospitals.
Many fires, especially those in buildings that are not protected by sprinklers will spread beyond the point of origin, through damaged fire separations and cause substantial fire damage or worse, cause loss of life to occupants remote from the fire. Where a building does not meet the fire code, the responsibility and legal liability falls on the building owner.
How We Can Assist You
Fire separations must be maintained throughout the life of the building. Damage to fire separations tends to occur during building occupancy. In such situations, if the fire separation(s) are not adequately repaired, the necessary protection to provide fire resistance will not be provided as required by the fire code.
Our engineers at PLC, a Jensen Hughes Company, can identify the required fire separations within a building using design drawings and/or site inspections. We can inspect those separations to determine their fire resistance rating and completeness, and provide recommendations on which repairs are needed for the fire separation(s) to meet code requirements.
We have successfully performed such large-scale inspections in schools, nursing homes/care facilities, and detention centers, as well as limited-area inspections in various other building types and uses.
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