Passive Fire Protection (PFP) is an integral component of structural fire protection and fire safety in a building. PFP is designed to contain fires or slow their spread, through use of fire resistant materials already deployed throughout the building. The goal of such protection is, in the event of a fire outbreak to provide more time to the building occupants for emergency evacuation or to reach an area of refuge. It does this by preventing or slowing the spread of fire from the room of fire origin to other building spaces. (Images of coated beams etc – to be supplied).
Fire Protection for Steelwork
It is a building regulation requirement to protect structural steel against fire. Consider these facts: if fire spreads in a building it raises the ambient temperature from approx 15°C to well over 800°C. Under these conditions a steel structure will buckle and fail leading to disasterous consequences.
Firepro protect your steel structure by applying intumescent coatings providing up to 2 hours fire resistance and also cementitious sprays providing up to 4 hours fire resistance. Intumescent coating reacts in a fire situation by expanding and forming an instulating char layer up to 50 times the paints original thickness.
Different coatings have the ability to protect steel structures for 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes in a fire.
Firepro are approved applicators of:
For cementitiuos sprays we are approved applicators of Thermica, Monokote, and Cafco.
Fire Protection for Concrete Soffit
Up to 300˚C the residual strength of structural quality concrete is not severely reduced. Between 300˚C and 500˚C the compressive strength reduces rapidly and concrete heated in excess of 600˚C is of no use structurally. Firepro protect your concrete soffit with sprayed mineral fibre providing 0.45 and 0.25 u-values in a quick, efficient manner with tamped finish.
Firepro are approved applicators of Thermica, and Cafco. sprays.
Fire Stopping
A firestop is a passive fire protection system of various components used to seal openings and joints in fire rated wall and/or floor assemblies, based on fire testing and certification listings. Unprotected openings in fire separations void the fire ratings of the fire separations that contain them allowing spread of fire past the limits of the fire safety plan of the entire building.
- Fire protection for the following pipes, ABS, PVC, PP and HDPE using fire collars, sleeves or wraps.
- Firestopping to all service penetrations.
- Cementitous and Gypsum mortars for wall and floor opes, mortars can provide structural floor opes if nessecary.
- Fire protection to edge of floor slabs with various different products, allowances for building movement and wind load.
- Fire rated mastic joints, including joints with variable tolerences.
- Fire barrier curtains including mineral wool and cloth up 120 minutes.
Upgrading of timber floors to give 1 hour fireprotection and excellent acoustic benefits.
Firepro are approved applicators of Fireus, Nullifire, FirePro and Firetherm.
What is fire?
Fire Triangle - FirePro | Fire StoppingIn scientific terms Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products. The fire triangle or combustion triangle is a simple model for understanding the necessary ingredients for most fires.
The triangle illustrates the three elements a fire needs to ignite: heat, fuel, and an oxidizing agent (usually oxygen). A fire naturally occurs when the elements are present and combined in the right mixture, meaning that fire is actually an event rather than a thing. A fire can be prevented or extinguished by removing any one of the elements in the fire triangle.
The fire tetrahedron represents the addition of a component, the chemical chain reaction, to the three already present in the fire triangle.
Once a fire has started, the resulting exothermic chain reaction sustains the fire and allows it to continue until or unless at least one of the elements of the fire is blocked.
