Structural Fire Protection
Structural fire protection: fire resistance verification for concrete, steel and timber to the Eurocodes – hot design instead of blanket encasement.
The verification that the structure stands long enough in a fire. It is carried out on the structure itself – not by encasing everything.
To the Eurocodes
We carry out hot design to the fire parts of the Eurocodes: concrete to EC2, steel to EC3, timber to EC5. The precise verification often shows that a member reaches the required fire resistance period with no additional measure at all.
What it saves
In steelwork, mainly fire encasement and intumescent coating; in timber, added section depth; in concrete, cover and member thickness. The verification costs less than the measure it makes unnecessary.
Structural Engineering