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Service | Product Evaluation
KFS manages a range of fire product testing and assessment services (complemented by
our independent advisory approach), to provide market confidence and assurance for
specifiers, whilst also enabling products to reach the market promptly and efficiently.
Building Regulations require that fire safety provisions,
systems and products are performance assured. KFS
engineers provide independent and expert opinion in all
areas of fire testing and in the assessment of the
performance of materials in instances of fire.
Comprehensive and impartial reports on expected product
performance, based upon empirical test evidence, will
ensure that our clients have all the information available to
use appropriate materials and products that meet legal and
stated performance criteria.
KFS remain independent of all product suppliers, installers
and manufacturers, so we can guarantee a confidential and
impartial service and provide you with trustworthy and
objective recommendations.
Fire Test Management
Kiwa Fire Safety Compliance are experts in areas of fire
testing. Through our knowledge of relevant standards, we
can advise our clients on how to ensure products comply
with fire legislation. By combining our fire testing expertise
with our fire engineering experience, we can identify
innovative new ways for clients to utilise their products.
To maintain our independent status, we do not run our own
test laboratories. We can manage the process of testing and
assessing the fire performance of products and materials,
giving the assurance sought by many of the industry’s
leading manufacturers.
This includes reaction and resistance to fire testing of
materials and structures; timber fire doors, penetration
seals, cavity barriers, load-bearing and non-load-bearing wall
systems, glazed screens.
Engineering Assessments
Our experience across a range of passive fire protection
systems allow us to develop robust Engineering
Assessments and bespoke system solutions, based upon
relevant test data so you can satisfy design and site
requirements without compromising on materials or safety.
KFS can assist in satisfying architectural design criteria and
specific site requirements, by confidently determining the
acceptable flexibility, tolerance, and usage variations that
construction products have from their originally tested
specification.
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