Resistance to Fire Testing
This is the term for testing of systems designed to hold up fire, as opposed to reaction-to-fire testing, which looks at how materials respond to fire (which we also provide). The sample fire door, windows, glass, wall partitions, dampers, fire stopping details or similar system, is installed in a frame which is then placed on the vertical open side of the fire testing furnace. The temperature in the furnace is raised by the computer control system to follow a prescribed time / temperature curve, and various checks for failure criteria such as Integrity, Thermal Insulation and Radiation are conducted to determine the time rating of the specimen. Ours is a state of the art furnace and control system that we purchased new from the UK in 2009. It can accommodate samples up to 3m x 3m.
The fire testing is managed by Jean-Philippe Kayl, who joined us to head up this project at the beginning of 2008. Prior to that he was managing fire testing for a large laboratory in France. Our Resistance-to-Fire testing is accredited to ISO 17025 for ASTM, BS, EN, IMO, ISO, NFPA and UL testing standards by both UKAS (the United Kingdom Accreditation Service) and by ENAS (Emirates National Accreditation System), making our test results acceptable practically anywhere in the world.
There is no other facility capable of testing fire rated construction assemblies in the entire region.
