FIRE RESISTANCE TESTING
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FIRE TESTING
Warringtonfire offers a comprehensive range of fire safety services, globally. Our services include fire safety engineering, fire testing, fire assessment and product certification. Warringtonfire can help with all aspects of fire and life safety.
Warringtonfire testing services include fire testing to a large number of national and international standards. Warringtonfire laboratories in Australia, UK, Europe, Asia/Asia Pacific, Middle East and Americas are accredited to ISO 17025 by the relevant testing accreditation bodies. In addition, many of our staff are recognised as international experts in their field and are actively involved in the development of new test procedures.
Our business has been built on consistency of service, commitment to our clients and our people, and our growing desire for excellence in our profession. Our dedicated team of engineers and technicians are experts in their field with in-depth local knowledge. We provide every client with a dedicated team consisting of engineers, a project manager and support staff to ensure your project is delivered on time and to budget. When we work with you, we become a part of your team.
Warringtonfire offers a comprehensive range of standard fire test and evaluation facilities. Quick turnaround and a prompt customer service have made Warringtonfire a recognised leader in meeting the needs of suppliers and manufacturers of numerous industries.
We have an established and extensive presence in Australia including our NATA accredited laboratory in Melbourne and our consulting offices located in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and Perth.
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Building assurance in the minds of our customers and offering solutions for a complex world underpins everything that we do at Warringtonfire. To consistently deliver on our promise, we work to three guiding principles, technical excellence, operational excellence and customer excellence.
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FIRE RESISTANCE TESTING
FIRE RESISTANCE TESTING Fire resistance tests determine the likely behaviour of an element of construction when subjected to a fully developed fire. Fire resistance is a property of a building component or structure and evaluating it usually requires a test of a representative part of a building, rather than individual materials in isolation. These tests are commonly specified in codes and regulations in both the building and transport sectors. The element of construction is exposed to defined heating and pressure conditions which may be encountered in fully developed fires. Consequently, fire resistance tests tend to be larger in scale and complexity than reaction to fire tests. The test specimens are representative of the items that go to make up buildings: doors, walls, floors, beams, columns, ceilings, etc. The assembly usually includes the specimen or product in addition to support construction around the product. At our Warringtonfire laboratory, both full and indicative scale fire resistance tests can be carried out on passive fire elements of structures.Warringtonfire undertakes tests using a variety of heating curves including the standard AS 1530.4 (ISO) curve, slow heating curves and the hydrocarbon time/temperature curve. Warringtonfire experts work closely with clients and can assist with the development of test programs, including indicative testing and full scale compliance testing. They have extensive technical knowledge of fire resistance and fire related testing, in addition to experience in developing adhoc test methods to suit our customers’ needs where no suitable standard exists. Warringtonfire undertakes fire resistance testing for AS, BS, EN, UL, IMO and ASTM standards and can arrange for tests to be witnessed for listing or certification purposes where requested. We also offer remote witnessing for realtime access to any test conducted in our laboratory.
Warringtonfire is able to conduct the following fire resistance tests: · Timber and steel fire doors · Wall and partitions · Glazed systems, curtain walls · Ventilation ducts and dampers · Steelwork protection · Shutter systems · Cavity barriers · Penetration seals · Pipe protection systems · Intumescent seals · Linear gap seals · Electrical cables and wiring systems · Dampers and powered and natural ventilators · Smoke control screens · Smoke doors and curtains · Smoke fans · Bushfire testing · Marine constructions. Warringtonfire Melbourne laboratory is accredited by National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) for an extensive range of tests and is a Registered Testing Authority in accordance with the Building Code of Australia. For a listing of Warringtonfire NATA scope of Accreditation for #3277 visit www.warringtonfire.com or the NATA website http://www.nata.asn.au. KE Y CONTACT DETAIL S Warringtonfire Australia Unit 2, 409-411 Hammond Road Dandenong, Victoria t: +61 3 9767 1000 e: info.fire.melbourne@warringtonfire.com
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