Develop designs for cavity barriers in facades to meet a fire strategy and regulatory frameworks

Design & specify | DS022

This activity is about influencing the design of buildings, arrangement of services and specification of cavity barriers in facades, as the design is emerging during RIBA stage 3 (Spatial Coordination)

Culture & behaviour

Core abilities

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Effective working behaviours

You must:

  • Work within limits of own capability and know when to seek advice from others
  • Manage own time effectively
  • Work effectively individually and as part of a team
  • Communicate effectively
  • Undertake personal development activities to maintain currency of competence
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Design & specification behaviours

You must:

  • Challenge unsafe behaviours and activities, and report where necessary
  • Work in accordance with quality requirements and challenge where they are not being met
  • Act ethically to ensure safe outcomes
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Experience developing designs for cavity barriers in facades

You must have:

  • 1 instance of design of cavity barriers in facades to meet fire strategy and regulatory frameworks, per year
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Core passive fire knowledge

You must:

  • Know the importance of passive fire protection in safeguarding buildings and people
    • To include: compartmentation; how PFP impedes fire to protect structures and people.
  • Know suitable vocabulary to discuss passive fire protection products
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Selection of construction products

You must:

  • Know how legislation and official guidance relates to the specification of passive fire protection products, and the consequences of non-compliance
  • Understand that buildings work as systems and know the importance of this when selecting construction products
  • Understand the organisation's construction products hierarchy and how to obtain advice and raise concerns as appropriate within it
  • Understand your responsibility to follow organisational rules about construction products
  • Be aware of the Code for Construction Product Information (CCPI) and how it is utilised
  • Know how conformity marking can be used to support product specification
    • To include: Use of the Declaration of Performance to compare products for the same scope of application; Knowing that not all products can be conformity marked
  • Understand how third party certification can support product specification
  • Understand how test reports can support product specification
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Handling product variation

You must be able to:

  • Identify where product variation may be required
  • Follow organisational processes to escalate product variation queries
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Developing designs for cavity barriers in facades

You must be able to:

  • Interpret technical information from manufacturers against the requirements in the fire strategy, building designs and/or site conditions that exist to make a judgement about the suitability of the products proposed for use in the specification, relating to cavity barriers in facades
  • Confirm products required for installation of cavity barriers in facades to meet fire strategy and design intent
  • Select alternative products for use in line with the specification where proposed products for cavity barriers in facades are unsuitable
  • Escalate issues for resolution where unsuitable products or systems have been proposed for use and no alternatives are available in line with the specification
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Finding and interpreting information on cavity barriers for use in facades

You must:

  • Know the materials that services are commonly made from and their implications for cavity barriers in facades
  • Know the supporting construction materials that are commonly used and their implications for use of cavity barriers in facades
  • Know where to find detailed information on cavity barriers for use in facades
  • Know how to interpret detailed information on cavity barriers for use in facades
    • To include: characteristics, quality, uses and limitations
  • Know that use categories are specified for cavity barriers in facades, and how those categories are located and applied
    • To include categories as set out in the ASFP red book
  • Know organisational processes for highlighting and resolving inaccurate or incomplete product information and why it is important that they are followed
  • Know the impact of getting information wrong
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Limits of responsibility

You must:

  • Understand that at this level you may select or propose a construction product for a direct scope of application, but for construction products for extended scopes of application or bespoke products, choices should be referred to the appropriately competent individual
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Communicating design information

You must:

  • Know organisational processes for communication of design information

You must be able to:

  • Communicate the requirements to relevant stakeholders
  • Use organisational procedures to document changes made to the specification

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Currency of competence

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