Fire safety
Compartmentation
Effective fire compartmentation is essential for enhancing building safety, minimizing property damage, and providing critical protection for occupants by containing flames and smoke within designated areas. At MEC Fire, our fire compartmentation services are expertly designed to uphold these standards, ensuring that fire and smoke barriers are correctly installed and maintained to meet stringent regulatory requirements. With a commitment to quality and compliance, we deliver trusted solutions that strengthen your building’s resilience in the face of fire.
Our comprehensive services include fire compartmentation surveys to assess current installations, meticulous inspections, and ongoing maintenance to address potential vulnerabilities. We also provide repairs and upgrades to existing compartmentation features, keeping them effective over time, and complete installations for new or retrofitted spaces. With MEC Fire’s expertise, your building gains enhanced safety, reduced risk of damage, and optimal protection for all occupants.
Enhanced building safety
Minimised property damage
Fire door surveys
Fire compartmentation is the practice of dividing a building into fire-resistant compartments to delay the spread of fire from one part of the building to another, or to an adjoining building. A fire compartment is defined as a building or part of a building comprising one or more rooms, spaces or storeys constructed to prevent the spread of fire to or from another part of the same building or an adjoining building.
Document B, Volume 2 (2019) defines fire compartments as; -“A building or part of a building comprising one or more rooms, spaces or storeys constructed to prevent the spread of fire to or from another part of the same building or an adjoining building.”
Between 30- 120-minute fire resistance is achieved with the provision of fire resisting walls and floors. It will include special measures to any openings in the compartment lines, such as doors, glazing, service penetrations and ductwork.
During the designed period (30-120minutes) The compartment wall or floor should remain operational, not crack or develop holes that allow flames, smoke or hot gases to pass through it, and if appropriate, it should maintain a suitable degree of insulation. Before escape routes are possibly compromised by the spread of fire and smoke, fire compartmentation provides additional time to evacuate and decrease the level of exposure.
Containment
Prevents the spread of fire and smoke
Safety
Protects building occupants.
Evacuation
Provides more time for safe evacuation
Compliance
Meets fire safety standards
Damage control
Limits property and structural damage
How we can help
Established 25 years ago we have worked across a variety of industries with particular focus on the hotel and leisure industries. These are customer facing sectors and therefore completion of the projects on time and in a way that causes minimal disruption to the client and their customers is fundamental to the way we operate.
We deliver projects on time, to budget and to a high standard of satisfaction to our clients. The development and growth of MEC Fire Services has been achieved through business from our satisfied customers and through referrals from both the client and the consultants we work with.
From our head office & workshops situated in Studley, Warwickshire we co-ordinate tradespeople and surveyors at various sites across the UK.