As a company, one of your most important assets is your team of employees. Not only are these the people that keep everything running smoothly and your operation generating money, but they also represent one of your largest investments. Years of training, benefits, and salaries go into your staff, so it’s vital that you keep your personnel safe for everybody’s sake. Firestopping is a necessary part of protecting your workers, your building, and your mechanical systems.
Inspections & Maintenance.
Firestopping is the art and science of creating and renewing the fire rating designed for a particular space. In general, a floor will be divided into areas called fire compartments. When firestopping is properly maintained, these fire compartments passively contain smoke, fire, and flue gasses. Firestopping is built to slow down the movement of fire — giving employees enough time to evacuate and fire rescue teams an opportunity to get the fire under control in time to prevent secondary damage (from smoke) to your machinery and building at large. To meet International Firestopping Standards, your buildings need to be thoroughly inspected every year. This is necessary to ensure the firestopping materials which degrade are up to code.
Renovations often seem harmless. Perhaps your office has installed a cable tray that leads from one end of the office to the other and moves between several rooms. But renovations like this can easily lead to accidentally penetrating a firewall or disturbing other important firestopping features. Before planning a renovation, it’s a good idea to talk with a team of firestopping experts who can help you make an informed decision about keeping your personnel, building, and machinery safe while also completely your renovation.
At Westcal, you’ll find a one stop shop of firestopping specialists. Our general contractors are firestop experts, so you can have your project handed by one team of skilled professionals instead of subcontracting and coordinating multiple experts. Our team can help with renovations that require through and blank penetration firestopping, cable trays & other special penetrations, and plenty more.
Do you need an expert team to ensure your new renovation is up to code? Are you inviting bids for a new project or simply require an annual firestopping inspection for your building? The team at Westcal Insulation LTD. is here to help. Contact us today at (403) 242-1357 to learn more about our firestopping services.
