iMist, one of many UK’s foremost suppliers of high-pressure water-mist fire-suppression techniques, has worked with leading industry physique the Fire Protection Association (FPA), to assist it gain UKAS accreditation for considered one of its fire-testing laboratory amenities – turning into the primary and only take a look at facility within the UK to hold this accreditation.
The fast-growing Hull-headquartered business, which has developed its own vary of high-pressure water-mist fire-suppression techniques, assisted the FPA in gaining UKAS accreditation for its BS8458: 2015 Annex C fireplace testing in Blockley, Gloucestershire, which is considered one of the most comprehensive fire test and analysis operations in the UK. IMist supplied the FPA with its proprietary pumps, pipework, hoses, clips and nozzles as nicely as the assist of iMist’s skilled staff.
The UKAS accreditation of the FPA’s BS 8458 Annex C hearth testing marks another essential milestone within the growth of water-mist systems in the UK.
Alex Pollard, operations director of iMist, comments: ‘For over 75 years, the FPA has been on the forefront of fire safety and we’re proud to have assisted them in achieving this respected third-party accreditation. It is an extra demonstration of the rising importance of high-pressure water-mist methods in tackling the current challenges going through the fire-suppression sector. Not solely do they use considerably much less water than conventional sprinkler methods, they are additionally simpler and quicker to put in and, thereby, more cost effective.’
As a half of its ongoing R&D product testing programme, iMist has additionally undertaken a series of live fireplace testing at the FPA’s UKAS accredited laboratory, which has elevated the system’s functions, demonstrating that in addition to being put in within the cavity above the ceiling, the iMist system pipework can safely and successfully be put in beneath a plasterboard ceiling.
For the stay hearth tests, the iMist nozzle was fed by both flexible and stable pipework running below a normal plasterboard ceiling. In every of the tests, the gas load was ignited and the heat from the fire brought on the bulb within the nozzle to burst, which activated the iMist high-pressure water-mist system, discharging the nice water-mist particles at high strain for 30 minutes. During this time, the temperatures at predetermined heights within the take a look at cell have been measured by thermocouples. At no point during any of the tests had been any of the Annex C temperature limits breached and the entire fires had been successfully suppressed.
Timothy Andrews, iMist enterprise improvement director, added: ‘While fireplace system pipework is normally put in in the cavity above a ceiling, in some properties, significantly in older tower blocks, there are frequent points around the attainable break-up of asbestos hidden in ceiling supplies. เพรสเชอร์เกจไฮดรอลิค show that the housing trade can now discover one other less disruptive and highly effective choice by putting in a water-mist system under the prevailing ceiling. Given the growing must retrospectively fit fire-suppression methods in order to meet the newest regulatory necessities and produce older housing stock as a lot as present standards, that is nice information for both landlords and builders.’
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