How to maintain Building Fire Integrity and Passive Fire Protection
When it comes to fire safety, Passive Fire Protection and Building Fire Integrity are core functions of any commercial property. Fire integrity are about ensuring the building’s structure can withstand fire long enough to prevent its spread, give people time to evacuate, and allow firefighters to respond appropriately.
Why Building Fire Integrity Checks are so important
Life Safety – Fire-resisting walls, floors, and ceilings compartmentalise a building. If they fail, fire and smoke can spread rapidly. The National Construction Code (NCC) emphasises that structural stability and preventing fire spread are top objectives and critical to the safety of building occupants.
Property Protection – Maintaining fire-rated barriers protects assets by slowing fire growth and fire-induced structural collapse. Passive Fire protection assets also stop the spread of fire to neighbouring buildings – particularly important in adjoining properties which share fire-rated walls.
Regulatory Compliance – In Australia, Passive Fire and Building Fire Integrity inspections are required under AS 1851, and identified defects are typically considered Critical in nature and should be rectified as soon as practical.
Reliable Protection – Fire-rated systems are only as good as their maintenance – trust Compliance Services to carry out your routine maintenance and inspections of all Building Fire Integrity and Passive Fire assets.
