Spotting a gap in the guidance – which is currently limited to manufacturers’ literature and short guides on specific end-use applications – the ASFP wants to produce a ‘colour book’ for operable curtains.
The ASFP’s Colour Books range contains detailed information on the use, specification, fire testing and certification of various passive fire protection products, together with information on the legislation relevant to the product concerned, such as building regulations and risk assessment legislation.
Documents in the range include:
The ‘Colour Books’, which are referenced as authoritative guidance in Approved Document B and other building regulations statutory documents, are available for free download from the ASFP website.
Each colour book contains lists of products whose fire performance has been independently verified. Manufacturing members of the ASFP can – after completing the applicable verification process – list their products in the appropriate colour book to link their products with the Building Regulations.
One of the UK’s biggest manufacturers of operable curtains, Coopers Fire, recently become a member of the ASFP. This has given the organisation the expertise to start work on the operable curtains guidance.
However, the ASFP wants to consult more widely beyond its membership, with both manufacturers and installers, to burnish the credibility and authority of the proposed guidance.
Anyone who takes part in the process will attend several half-day meetings to produce a draft document. There will be no reimbursement for time or expenses incurred in attending meetings, but all contributors will get an acknowledgment in the document’s foreword.
Interested organisations should email ASFP Technical Officer Niall Rowan at [email protected].
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