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Sussex University<br />
chooses Dorgard<br />
Sussex University has recently<br />
bought a number of Dorgards to<br />
overcome the practice of illegally<br />
holding open fire doors located in<br />
busy corridors of academic buildings<br />
on the university campus, a<br />
practice that breached the<br />
University’s own fire safety guidelines.<br />
This latest order follows the successful<br />
use of Dorgards in accommodation<br />
areas at the University’s<br />
Institute of Development Studies<br />
where they have proven to be the<br />
easiest and most cost-effective<br />
way of legally holding open fire<br />
doors.<br />
Dorgard offers significant cost<br />
advantages as it can be<br />
retrofitted in minutes,<br />
with no wiring required.<br />
And with more than<br />
125,000 Dorgards<br />
installed across the UK,<br />
<strong>Fire</strong>co’s listening technology<br />
is recognised as<br />
the safe, cost-effective<br />
way of legally holding<br />
open fire doors in busy<br />
environments in any position<br />
and automatically<br />
releasing them when the<br />
fire alarm sounds<br />
The Dorgard range is now<br />
acknowledged as an<br />
established technology<br />
offering a solution over<br />
the widest range of<br />
applications, and complies<br />
fully with all relevant<br />
British Standards,<br />
EC Directives and UK<br />
Workplace <strong>Fire</strong><br />
Regulations.<br />
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fire & hazard <strong>protect</strong>ion<br />
Understanding the burning issues<br />
Demand for fire resistant glass is rising in line<br />
with increasingly stringent fire safety regulations<br />
in both the public and private sectors.<br />
Gary Colliver, National Account Manager at<br />
Float Glass Industries talks to PFM magazine<br />
and offers his view on the latest issues and<br />
developments in this burgeoning market.<br />
As one of the UK's largest glass distributors, the<br />
supply of fire resistant glazing products is an<br />
important part of Float Glass Industries' (FGI's)<br />
offering. Faced with an array of fire glasses and<br />
performance claims many designers and facilities<br />
managers look to their chosen fire door<br />
manufacturer or glazing contractor for advice.<br />
Although wired glass continues to dominate the<br />
fire glazing market it is limited by its dated and<br />
institutional appearance. The glass industry has<br />
developed a wide range of more sophisticated,<br />
clear view glasses, of which multi-layered intumescent<br />
laminates provide the most attractive<br />
performance characteristics. Much is also made<br />
of a product's integrity in a fire situation, that<br />
is the time period the glass will prevent flames<br />
from breaking through, such as 30 minutes or<br />
60 minutes. However, at FGI we strongly recommend<br />
the use of products that are able to<br />
offer in addition a degree of insulation as well<br />
as the specified integrity, for the following reasons.<br />
If there's a fire burning on one side of a<br />
fire resistant glass that offers no insulation<br />
value, the temperature on the non fire side will<br />
rise rapidly. This represents an increased danger<br />
to people passing by and could cut off what<br />
may have been intended as a safe means of<br />
escape.<br />
<strong>Fire</strong> glass that offers the appropriate level of<br />
integrity required with the added benefit of an<br />
insulation value can, therefore, be a real lifesaver<br />
in the event of a fire. At FGI we believe<br />
we have a role to play in raising awareness<br />
amongst architects and facilities managers of<br />
fire glass developments, and, of course, to provide<br />
the products that meet current and future<br />
requirements in this fast moving field. That's<br />
why we have been working closely with<br />
Pilkington, Europe's largest glass manufacturer,<br />
to add products like its Pyrodur range to our<br />
fire glass collection. In fact, we are one of the<br />
few independent stockists of the complete<br />
suite of Pilkington <strong>Fire</strong> Resistant Glass in the<br />
UK.<br />
Let's take a closer look at Pyrodur Plus, which<br />
is an excellent example of a tried, tested and<br />
trusted integrity only glass offering a degree of<br />
insulation. Pilkington's Pyrodur Plus is only 7mm<br />
thick and contains just one specially designed<br />
intumescent layer sandwiched between two<br />
pieces of glass. It offers 30 minutes integrity<br />
and also provides insulation against the heat<br />
generated by a fire being radiated through to<br />
Hochiki selected for<br />
Iceland’s schools system<br />
More and more educational establishments<br />
worldwide are specifying<br />
Hochiki detection devices to<br />
meet increasingly stringent and<br />
demanding safety standards with<br />
reliable cost-effective fire <strong>protect</strong>ion.<br />
In Iceland the schools system has<br />
recently been decentralised. Local<br />
municipalities now manage the<br />
schools and are therefore responsible<br />
for all funding of these facilities.<br />
Hochiki detection devices<br />
answer the demands of the municipalities<br />
for quality and reliability<br />
and also satisfy operational criteria<br />
to ensure the lowest cost of maintenance.<br />
Hochiki detection is the technology<br />
of choice for Ark Security whose<br />
projects include five new Icelandic<br />
schools, like their latest at<br />
the non-fire side. In the event of a fire the<br />
glass cracks allowing the intumescent interlayer<br />
to swell and <strong>protect</strong> both people and property.<br />
It will sustain a very steep temperature<br />
gradient across its thickness and continue to<br />
hold the pieces of glass together even though<br />
they have been broken by the heat. This makes<br />
Pyrodur Plus one of the safest choices in the<br />
market place today. In Addition Pyrodur Plus<br />
also boasts good acoustic qualities, thereby<br />
incorporating privacy and security into what is<br />
primarily a fire safety package. Additionally,<br />
being a clear glass it's especially suited to<br />
installations where visual appeal and fire <strong>protect</strong>ion<br />
are both important considerations. As<br />
such it is an ideal solution for all kinds of internal<br />
glazing applications, such as fire doors,<br />
screens and partitions in offices, schools, hospitals<br />
and other buildings.<br />
Depending on the exact application, fire resistant<br />
glazing can contribute to <strong>protect</strong>ing the<br />
structure of the building from collapse,<br />
restricting the spread of flame across its internal<br />
linings and prevent fire from spreading to<br />
adjoining properties.<br />
Arguably even more important though is the<br />
ability of fire resistant glazing to make a significant<br />
contribution to <strong>protect</strong>ing means of<br />
escape routes, as well as maintaining fire-fighting<br />
access for the emergency services.<br />
With a proven track record in such hostile environments<br />
as oilrigs and chemical works, intumescent<br />
laminates offer architects and facilities<br />
managers a clear conscience and peace of<br />
mind knowing that he/she did everything they<br />
could to provide every possible second in the<br />
event of a fire.<br />
Gardabæ with a fire <strong>protect</strong>ion system<br />
centred on hundreds of<br />
Hochiki ALG-E analogue addressable<br />
photoelectric smoke sensors<br />
(featuring Hochiki’s ‘High<br />
Performance Optical Technology’<br />
which allows the sensor threshold<br />
level to be increased, thus extending<br />
sensitivity to a much wider<br />
range of combustible materials).<br />
This schoolhouse complex covers<br />
8000 square metres and the system<br />
is also supported by Hochiki manual<br />
call points with all devices integrated<br />
to a Kentec Syncro control<br />
panel and Focus+ repeater display.<br />
In addition, Hochiki I/O interface<br />
modules are installed for monitoring<br />
and controlling from the loop<br />
ancillary equipment such as sprinklers<br />
and dampers.<br />
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