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Planning your Passive Fire Protection Inspections
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Danilo Macedo
Apr 93 min read
Passive Fire Protection Qualifications in New Zealand
Formal Passive Fire Protection qualifications available that are recognised by NZQA
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Rob Holland
Mar 223 min read
Passive Fire Protection: How to find the fire separations?
In my last Passive Fire Protection LinkedIN post, I raised a question: How is it that buildings subject to annual BWOF inspections can...
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Danilo Macedo
Nov 23, 20236 min read
Passive Fire Protection Products: Where to find them?
There are numerous manufacturers of Passive Fire Products worldwide, however, not all of them are available in New Zealand, and even...
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Rob Holland
Oct 17, 20234 min read
Fire Safety Design: Is an 'Acceptable Solution' design always fire safe?
'Acceptable Solutions' or 'Deemed to Satisfy' documents are extremely useful for completing a fire safety design - but for some...
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Danilo Macedo
Jul 24, 20232 min read
Passive Fire Protection Training for Property Managers
To answer many Property Manager questions, we created a FREE training session, "Passive Fire Protection for Property Managers"
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Danilo Macedo
Jul 21, 20234 min read
Fire Safety Design: How can a Fire Engineer support FENZ?
By Danilo Macedo As part of our Continued Professional Development (CPD) we are encouraged to take part in the hands on course - "Fire...
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Danilo Macedo
Jul 7, 20233 min read
YES, you CAN use Pink Foam in your Passive Fire Project!
But we usually don't recommend it. Continue reading to understand the real issue with Fire-rated foams, when you can use them, and why....
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Rob Holland
Apr 26, 20234 min read
Flood restoration: Do I need consent or a Fire Engineer?
Understanding the need for Consent of a flood-damaged building.
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Danilo Macedo
Apr 18, 20237 min read
Fire Engineering: Fire Growth
Size of the Fire Before we discuss fire growth, it is important to understand how we define the size of a fire. Combustion generates...
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Danilo Macedo
Apr 18, 20233 min read
Fire Engineering: Understanding Fire Protection
Principles of Fire Science For eons, humans have been familiar with fire, and most of us still use it daily, perhaps our familiarity...
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Danilo Macedo
Apr 18, 20233 min read
Fire Engineering: Heat and its consequences during Fire
Heat exposure is one of the tenability criteria assessed during a fire design, given the many adverse affects it can have on the human...
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Danilo Macedo
Apr 18, 20236 min read
Fire Engineering: Class of Fire and Fire Extinguishers
Class of Fires: As explained in another article, a fire can be extinguished by breaking the fire triangle (smothering, starving or...
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Danilo Macedo
Mar 14, 20234 min read
What is a Passive Fire Consultant?
A Passive Fire Protection Consultant, also called a Passive Fire Engineer or a Passive Fire Specialist, is a person that holds an...
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Danilo Macedo
Feb 10, 20234 min read
Fire Safety Design: What Are Smoke Separations?
The basic principle behind passive fire protection is compartmentation. This compartmentation is mainly achieved through fire...
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Danilo Macedo
Feb 10, 20234 min read
Fire Engineering: Smoke Properties and Intoxication
Smoke Development As the old saying goes: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire! In our case, as our focus is the study of fire, we could...
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Danilo Macedo
Feb 10, 20233 min read
New Zealand Construction Legislation
According to the Cambridge dictionary, compliance means: · “The act of obeying an order, rule, or request”. · “The fact of obeying a...
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Danilo Macedo
Feb 10, 20232 min read
Fire Safety Design: What are Fire Separations?
The basic principle behind passive fire protection is compartmentation. This compartmentation is achieved through fire separations and...
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Danilo Macedo
Feb 10, 20233 min read
What are the Important Aspects of Passive Fire Protection?
New passive fire protection products become available all the time, so users must keep up with the latest developments to see how they...
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Danilo Macedo
Feb 10, 20234 min read
Verifying the Performance of a Passive Fire Protection System?
When dealing with passive fire protection, it is common to refer to the performance of a system generically as “60 minutes fire rated” or...
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