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

Design & specify | DS021

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

Culture & behaviour

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Effective working behaviours

You must:

  • Work within limits of defined 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 defined 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
  • Follow organisational processes for highlighting and resolving inaccurate or incomplete product information
    • The individual knows what the processes are, why they are important and follows the processes in place
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Experience developing designs for large fabric cavity barriers

You must have:

  • 1 instance of design of large fabric cavity barriers 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

To provide evidence, you may complete:

  • IFE Level 2 Certificate in Passive Fire Protection
  • IFE Level 2 Award in Passive Fire Protection
    • Any one or more of the awards currently on offer
  • IFE Level 3 Certificate in Passive Fire Protection
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Selecting 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 how digital engineering can assist with the design and specification process, and its limitations
  • Understand that buildings work as systems and know the importance of this when selecting construction products
  • 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
  • Know where to find information on product warranties
  • Know the impact of getting information wrong
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Impact of product variation in design and specification

You must:

  • Understand the potential impact of product variation on construction system conformance or compliance
  • Understand when product variation may be required
    • Where suitable products cannot be specified based on direct field of application and certificated product performance
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Developing designs for large cavity barriers

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 large fabric cavity barriers
  • Confirm products required for installation of large cavity barriers to meet fire strategy and design intent
  • Select alternative products for use in line with the specification where proposed products for large cavity barriers 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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Interpreting information on large cavity barriers

You must:

  • Know the materials that services are commonly made from and their implications for large cavity barriers
  • Know the supporting construction materials that are commonly used and their implications for the use of large cavity barriers
  • Know how to interpret detailed information on large cavity barriers
    • To include: characteristics, quality, uses, limitations
  • Know that use categories are specified for materials used for large cavity barriers, and how those categories are located and applied
    • To include categories as set out in the ASFP red book
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Finding information on large cavity barriers

You must:

  • Know where to find detailed information on passive fire protection products, relating to large cavity barriers
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Limits of responsibility for design

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 methods of communicating design information

You must be able to:

  • Communicate the requirements to relevant stakeholders
  • Document changes made to the specification

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