One of FIREFLY®’s most active contracting partners has successfully utilised a selection of the manufacturer’s fully tested barrier systems and ancillary products to carry out a rapid upgrade to a property belonging to the Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation, replacing a superseded, mineral wool system which no longer met modern standards of performance, thereby ensuring the safety of staff as well as patients for the foreseeable future.
Coventry based KRASI Fire Protection Limited – a specialist sub-contractor well experienced in all types of commercial construction projects and upgrades – completed the installation of the well proven and fully certified FIREFLY® Apollo Lite™ 30:30 and Apollo Horizontal barriers, together with a bespoke access hatch and products such as Collaroll. The work was carried out over a three-week period in April 2024.
The company’s Contract Manager, Daniel Oldacre, commented: “A key aspect of the specification of the products for this job was the fact that FIREFLY® is the only manufacturer which has a fully tested hatch as part of their barrier. Having removed the old mineral wool fire barriers which no longer conform to the Building Regulations, Approved Document B, our team of five operatives set about erecting the FIREFLY® Apollo Lite™ barriers to divide the roof space into three separate compartments, with a protected zone, using the Apollo Lite™ to wrap the timber rafters. Then because of the spacing of the rafters, we had to order a bespoke sized access hatch through our contact, Chris Boam at FIREFLY®. This was 900 mm high but only 500 mm wide, for which we built a subframe using Uni-struts and the new door was delivered in just over a week, so it didn’t hold the job up at all. Overall, we erected some 300 square metres of barriers and the project went to plan.”
The standard range of FR 120 FIREFLY® hatches have been stringently tested against EN 1363-1 2020 and are third party certified by IFC, being shown to achieve an impressive two hours fire resistance from either side of a fire compartment. Intended to be fitted vertically, the heavy-duty construction of the Zintec steel door and Unistrut frame ensures the assembly offers a tight and flush fit when closed and rugged performance in use.
Manufactured from woven and non-woven glass, the FIREFLY® range is designed to optimise resistance to flame and smoke, as well as offer heat protection in a wide range of scenarios. The barriers are easy to install horizontally or vertically using a full selection of FIREFLY® ancillary products to ensure a fully tested and certified installed system.
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