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Passive fire protection is a crucial element to any building’s overall fire safety strategy. The purpose of passive fire protection is to slow or prevent the spread of fire within the building using fire rated materials. Passive fire protection systems work by using fire resistant doors, walls and floors to contain fire, heat and smoke, with the aim of limited fire spread to a single compartment within the building.
Passive systems do not extinguish fire, but rather focus on minimising the spread of fire throughout a building. These systems work by containing a fire to its area of origin, providing safe escape for the occupants of the building and so that the fire and rescue service can deal with the fire more easily. Limiting the spread of the fire to the compartment results in a smaller, contained fire which also provides greater resilience for the building structure. Effective passive fire protection systems work by dividing a building into fire protected ‘areas’; this is referred to as compartmentation. Compartmentation protects the building by containing fire and smoke away escape routes, hallways, stairwells, and fire exits. Passive fire protection systems also aim to limit structural damage to crucial areas of a building.
Elite Fire Solutions Passive Fire Protection Services
We provide the highest standards of fire safety solutions to the UK, which include:
An integral component of structural fire protection. Elite Fire Solutions step in and compartmentalise and minimise the spread of smoke and fire throughout any building. As an accredited IFC installer, we operate under the most up to date guidelines and can certify our works to comply with building regulation requirements
A fire and smoke door with a fire resistance and smoke control rating reduces the spread of fire and smoke between compartments and helps to maximise time for occupants to escape from a building. We fit, maintain and repair all fire doors to exact specifications, following all regulations as standard to ensure correct certification.
An AOV system is an automatic opening vent system, and is designed to extract and control the density of smoke during a building fire. Not only are we able to complete routine planned maintenance in accordance with British Standards, but we also offer out of hours and emergency remedial works to AOV's and Smoke Extract Systems.
Our vast experience of smoke, fire curtains and shutters enable us to provide invaluable maintenance and servicing to these life safety fire prevention devices. We are approved installers for the largest Fire and Smoke Curtain manufacturers and have successfully completed installations on many prestigious projects throughout the UK.
Our City and Guilds qualified Engineers fit fire dampers in heating, ventilation, air conditioning ducts and more. Fire and smoke dampers respond to the detection of fire and close automatically. The device permits the flow of air where fire rated structures (e.g. walls, floors or other fire barriers) are penetrated.
At Elite, we pride ourselves on our highly qualified and compliant team that consistently delivers outstanding installation, service, maintenance, and electricians for the smoke & fire industry.
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