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What is a Fire Stopping Inspection Report?
A Fire Stopping Inspection Report is a form that helps you keep track of your inspection notes and findings for all fire stopping works. Additionally, engineers and site personnel use reports like these to document any on-going fire stopping works and, ultimately, demonstrate compliance to building code. In the UK, the building regulations Approved Document B requires that any building must be able to “inhibit the unseen spread of fire and smoke within concealed spaces”. The application of fire stops is critical to comply with this requirement.
Fire stopping is a construction method used to seal openings, gaps, and joints in fire-resisting features within a building such as walls, floors, and partitions. A fire stopping inspection report helps engineers keep track of all these openings and the fire stopping applied to seal them off. Further, a fire stopping inspection report is highly relevant in all types of modern buildings, as newer building designs have more openings across its features to allow for conduits to pass through.
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Why is Fire Stopping Inspection Important?
Fire stopping inspection is important because it ensures that all openings, penetrations, gaps, and joints in fire-resisting features are properly sealed off. Buildings rely on fire-resisting walls and floors to isolate and contain fires within one area. However, creating holes and openings on these features are almost always unavoidable due to design constraints.
Creating openings in these features is commonly done to allow for the installation of pipes, conduits, cables, and ducting within your building. However, these “openings” present an obvious fire risk as they would allow fire and smoke to traverse spaces that would have otherwise been sealed off from one another. Further, one building alone can have several of these openings in one room alone. As a result, engineers commonly perform fire stopping inspections to ensure that these openings are all properly sealed off.
Fire Stopping Inspection Requirements
Here are some important requirements that you need to verify during your fire stopping inspections to comply with the UK Approved Document B :
- Check all fire-resisting elements and penetrations are properly sealed
- Confirm materials match tested systems and are correctly installed
- Ensure seals are continuous, bonded, and gap-free
- Inspect joints, interfaces, and perimeter gaps
- Check fire stopping in voids, risers, shafts, and escape routes
- Reject untested or incorrect materials
- Record photos and notes for compliance
- Verify competent installation and proper documentation
How to Get Fire Stopping Inspection Certification
First, it is important to note that getting a fire stopping inspection certification is not an explicit requirement in the Approved Document B of the building regulations. However, building control officials often expect engineers to provide some certification (sometimes through a competent third party) of quality fire stopping to demonstrate compliance with regulations. We suggest reaching out to your preferred authorized certification body in order to get specific steps on acquiring fire stopping certification for your building.
If you are the one performing fire stopping inspections, you will usually be required to get an inspector's certification as well. Usually, the steps to acquiring a certification varies depending on the certification body. However, you would most probably want to start by choosing the right “scheme” for certification, then proceeding with training and assessment exams, and, once passed, finally receiving your certification.
What are Fire Stopping Special Inspections?
Special inspection for fire stopping refers to a process where a third-party qualified inspector verifies that the firestop systems installed in a building meet the required standards and are compliant with the appropriate codes. In the UK, the building regulations Approved Document B Fire Safety does not explicitly require any “special” inspection.
However, under the Building Safety Act, high rise buildings are usually required to have special inspections to verify its overall compartmentation integrity. Additionally, it should be noted that special inspections must also be performed once building control officials deem it necessary. This is usually performed when new penetrations are created in the fire resisting features in a building, or when there is increased risk due to defects.
How Often Should Fire Stopping be Inspected?
The Approved Doc. B (Part B) does not explicitly specify a time interval for fire stopping inspections. However, Part B does require that:
- Inspections should occur whenever works affect a fire-resisting element
- Inspections must take place before any fire-stopping is covered or made inaccessible
- Inspections should be carried out at construction stages where compartmentation could be compromised
- A final inspection is needed before completion so that the fire-stopping forming part of compartmentation can be verified
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is this the best Fire Stopping Inspection Report?
With Sitemate’s Fire Stopping Inspection Report, you can log all the penetrations made to any fire resisting features, be guided with requirements specific to fire stopping, and track any issues of non-compliance. Plus, you can even take and attach photos to the form, take down field notes, perform sign offs - all in real time.
Does this inspection report comply with any relevant building regulations?
Yes, this inspection report was based entirely on the Approved Document B to ensure your team complies with UK building regulations. You can even submit copies of your reports to building control as evidence packets to support your demonstration of compliance.
How do I edit the template to suit my company’s requirements?
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Where can I access the reports I make?
You can access your reports on devices like phones, tablets, laptops and computers. This means you can take the form out with you on job site inspections, fill it in, save and export it to other formats (PDF or CSV), or share it to other stakeholders, who can access your reports on their devices as well.
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