FIRE ASSESSMENTS
WE DELIVER EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS TO COMPLEX PROBLEMS ABOUT US Warringtonfire Australia offers a comprehensive range of fire safety services, including fire safety engineering, fire testing, fire assessment, and passive fire product certification. We can help with all aspects of fire and life safety. Our business has been built on consistency of service, commitment to our clients and our people, and a 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 and support staff to ensure your project is delivered on time and within budget. When we work with you, we become a part of your team. We have an established and extensive presence in Australia including at our NATA accredited laboratory in Melbourne and our offices located in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and Perth.
As an Accredited Testing Laboratory (ATL), Warringtonfire can provide an assessment report subject to A5.4, A5.5, and A5.6 and covered under section A5.2 (1) (d) Evidence of Suitability in the NCC. Assessment reports may be used as Evidence of Suitability in accordance with the relevant requirements of the NCC to support the use of a material, product, form of construction or design. Assessment reports also reference test evidence to meet performance requirements or deemed to satisfy (DTS) provisions of the NCC. FIRE ASSESSMENT SERVICES Our experienced team can provide: ·
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W H AT I S A F I R E A S S E S S M E N T ? Fire assessments are desktop study reports of a modified product or system that has already been fire tested. Fire assessments range from straightforward judgements on small changes to a product, through to a detailed and complex engineering analyses of large, sophisticated building systems. They also involve the inter- or extrapolation of a series of fire resistance or reaction to fire tests results to evaluate a range of variables in a construction design or product. Sometimes, it may not be possible to subject an exact construction or product to a fire test. In these cases, we can provide an assessment of the expected performance of a construction element or product based on available reference test data or through computer and mathematical modelling.
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Advice on new product ranges or systems to determine the minimum testing required to comply with the regulatory requirements, this enables the assessment of a wider range of products. Fire assessment reports to address variations to the fire resistance, reaction to fire and bushfire attack levels of products. Modifications to a tested product or system with supplementary R&D pilot scale or medium scale tests. Mathematical and computer modelling which can assess variations of the tested product or system. Structural fire protection assessments on protected steel members and composite construction systems. Assessments on the performance of a product or a system under specific conditions or installation configurations, which may be read together with fire engineering reports prepared by an accredited fire safety engineer for ongoing projects. Finite element thermal and structural analyses to simulate the behaviour of building systems exposed to fire. A ‘translation’ of a test report conducted overseas by an internationally accredited test laboratory to an equivalent Australian test standard for application in Australia if applicable.
MEETING CODE REQUIREMENTS
K E Y C O N TA C T D E TA I L S
The National Construction Code (NCC) and other local or international construction codes specify the test standards for fire resistance, reaction to fire, and bushfire attack levels.
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Tests performed to the requirements set out by a particular test standard only allow the product or system to be installed as tested. Variations may exist as per the standard under “permissible variations”. However, any other variations that are required to meet performance requirements, must be assessed by a fire assessment team with an Accredited Testing Laboratory.
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FIRE ASSESSMENTS
P R O C E D U R E F O R U N D E R TA K I N G A S S E S S M E N T S
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Define the product family / system / building component / construction details that are required to demonstrate fire performance
Scope out and establish the minimum testing needed to cover proposed variations for the defined product family or system
Scoping and Te c h n i c a l R e v i e w
Compare available test evidence and/or mathematical and computer modelling against the proposed variations using gap analysis or worst performance scenario DELIVER RESULTS TO THE CLIENT
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Producing Evidence of Compliance
ISSUE REPORT TO THE CLIENT
Is there sufficient test evidence available to support the claimed performance? YES Prepare assessment report
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Do additional tests or conduct mathematical and computer modelling to cover the defined product family / system / building component / construction details
NO Re-define the product family using the available test data
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