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Compartmentation Surveys

Regular compartmentation surveys help to identify defects in your compartmentation so that you can arrange to get them remediated and fixed.

This ensures compartmentation is maintained at all times, protecting the life safety of the building occupants.

Trident are here to help.

Using our professional knowledge and experience, along with our specialist OneTrace recording system, not only can we carry out surveys which identify all of the defects within your building, but we can also advise and recommend on corrective works to help reinstate compartmentation and get your building back up to standard.

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Fire Industry Experts

Our consultants have extensive knowledge of passive fire protection systems so we know the right product for the right situation. We work closely with numerous major manufacturers meaning we can specify the latest and best systems for the job.

Fully Accredited

With memberships and affiliations with the Fire Protection Association, Institute of Fire Engineers and the Institute of Fire Safety Managers, Trident are continually involved with the latest developments in fire safety and building compliance.

60+ Years Experience

The Trident team has over 60 years combined experience in the passive fire protection and construction industry and we are only getting stronger. We drive to be the leading experts in passive fire protection and compartmentation.

Why do you need compartmentation surveys?

As time goes on, your building may undergo a series of changes.

This could be as simple as new internet cables being installed to your offices, or could be as complex as a full-scale renovation.

In any case, there is often a disregard for fire protection and, over time, the established compartmentation within your building may become more and more damaged and could remain unknowingly compromised for an extended period of time. This can include, walls, floors and fire doors.

There is an unfortunate common occurrence in most buildings that passive fire protection measures are either:

Installed to a sub-standard quality
Significantly damaged from neglect
Missing entirely
Or a combination of the three

The predominant reason that these issues go unnoticed is that passive fire protection is often hidden away from plain view.

They are concealed above ceilings, in service risers, or behind decorative features.

It can also be difficult to tell when simply looking at, for example, a firestop whether it has been installed to the correct standard.

However, under the Regulatory Reform Order (Fire Safety Order) 2005, the Responsible Person is required to ensure that your building complies with an agreed fire strategy and fire safety systems (including passive fire protection) are kept in good order.

These missing or damaged fire protection systems could void any building insurance but, more importantly, it could jeopardise life safety in the event of a fire.

It is important that you regularly check that your fire protection measures are still in place and remain effective should they ever be needed.

Trident Fire Compliance can carry out comprehensive compartmentation surveys to help you identify any defects and then provide guidance on how best to remediate them.

For further comfort and peace of mind, Trident Fire Compliance also provide a further service of Compliance Inspections – this is an independent assessment of an installer’s work, providing you with further evidence that your fire protection works are being completed to the correct standard.

From start to finish, Trident Fire Compliance can provide the full range of services to help you maintain fire safety with your building.

How Trident can help

Compartmentation surveys

Trident Fire Compliance can undertake surveys on your building to highlight to you where deficiencies in fire compartmentation have occurred.

Comprehensive reports

Our full written reports fully detail the defects identified during the survey and provide advice and guidance on how to remediate these issues and reinstate fire compartmentation.

Annotated drawings

In most cases, we can provide annotated drawings of your building using our OneTrace software, which will identify each issue found, their exact locations, photographs and descriptions.

Remedial specification

Following our inspection and report, we can also provide a remedial specification for how these issues can be corrected to reinstate the fire compartmentation using tested systems.

Full bills of quantities

We can create full bills of quantities using our remedial specification to quantify the works required, which you can then use in the tendering process allowing you to get competitive quotes.

Third-party recommendations

Not all fire protection companies are the same. Trident has seen the good and the bad, and we are able to recommend a range of installers who would deliver your remedial works to a high standard.

When carrying out a survey, Trident will follow fire strategy drawings provided by the client to identify all fire compartment walls and floors to be inspected.

Our inspectors will inspect in all risers, risk rooms, above suspended ceilings (where accessible) and all other compartment walls and floors.

However, Trident do not undertake destructive works to gain access above solid plasterboard ceilings - this would need to be arranged by the client.

All compliant and non-compliant items found will be recorded onto the provided drawings using uniquely referenced drop “pins” on the drawings with photographs and descriptions of the issues identified.

These findings are then presented in a PDF format for the client to review.

A written report of the findings will also be provided detailing the issues found, why they are not compliant, and recommendations on how to correct the issues to ensure compliance is achieved.

Trident is also able to offer schedules of works/bills of quantities for required remedial works which can then be used by the client to obtain tenders for the works.

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