The answer shouldn’t start with the product.
It should start with the building fire strategy and the required performance of the compartment boundary.
BSB’s new Technical Position Paper explores a performance-based approach to fire damper specification, including:
- When E, ES, EI and EIS classifications are appropriate
- When insulation performance is genuinely required
- Why different locations within the same building may require different classifications
- The importance of supporting construction and the tested and classified installation
- Spatial coordination, access and whole-life considerations
- The five questions every designer should ask before specifying a fire damper
The objective isn’t to specify the highest classification everywhere. It is to specify the demonstrated performance that satisfies the engineering requirement.
Register for your personal copy of the full BSB Technical Position Paper here
Read it. Challenge it. Use it to inform your next specification.
