Fire Product Evaluation
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Kiwa Firew Safety Compliance manages a range of fire product testing and assessment services (complemented by our independent advisory approach), to provide market confidence and assurance for specifiers, whilst also enabling products to reach the market promptly and efficiently.
Building Regulations require that fire safety provisions, systems and products are performance assured. KFS engineers provide independent and expert opinion in all areas of fire testing and in the assessment of the performance of materials in instances of fire.
Comprehensive and impartial reports on expected product performance, based upon empirical test evidence, will ensure that our clients have all the information available to use appropriate materials and products that meet legal and stated performance criteria.
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Independent of all product suppliers, installers and manufacturers, we can guarantee a confidential and impartial service for trustworthy and objective recommendations
Fire Test Management
As recognised experts in all areas of fire testing we can manage the process of testing and assessing the fire performance of products and materials, giving the assurance sought by many of the industry’s leading manufacturers.
Through our knowledge of relevant standards, we can advise our clients on how to ensure products comply with fire legislation. By combining our fire testing expertise with our fire engineering experience, we can identify innovative new ways for clients to utilise their products.
Types of products include timber fire doors, penetration seals, cavity barriers, load-bearing and non load-bearing wall systems, glazed screens.
To maintain our independent status, we do not run our own test laboratories. We can manage the process of testing and assessing the fire performance of products and materials, giving the assurance sought by many of the industry’s leading manufacturers.
This includes reaction and resistance to fire testing of materials and structures; timber fire doors, penetration seals, cavity barriers, load-bearing and non-load-bearing wall systems, glazed screens.
Engineering Assessments
Our experience across a range of passive fire protection systems allow us to develop robust Engineering Assessments and bespoke system solutions, based upon relevant test data so you can satisfy design and site requirements without compromising on materials or safety.
We can assist in satisfying architectural design criteria and specific site requirements, by determining the acceptable flexibility, tolerance, and usage variations that construction products have from their originally tested specification. Our engineering assessments contain expert judgement of the product’s performance, supported by numerical and quantifiable methods, as well as experience of conducting fire resistance tests on similar products.
Our knowledge and experience will provide confidence, minimise risk and ensure projects are able to continue to time and to specification.
Field of Application Reports
In certain situations, it is necessary to produce a Field of Application (FOA) Report for a product. By bringing together numerous fire-resistant test reports into a single practical document that outlines the variations and permitted parameters, KFS can demonstrate the range of situations in which the product’s fire performance criteria remains valid.
The report provides professional guidance to a manufacturer/fabricator or installer enabling them to produce a ‘compliant’ and ‘fit for purpose’ product/system for the building owner. In supplying an FOA report with a product, manufacturers can reduce the risk of incorrect installation.
In addition to providing confidence in production and installation, our FOA reports will provide clients with a high degree of certainty regarding the range of situations in which their product can be marketed and sold.