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Ian Barry, formerly of specialist product manufacturer Cafco International, explains how costly equipment and structures can be fire protected using a variety of materials and gives examples of recent events.

The entire structural steel element (more than 47,000 square metres) of Green Side Place, the new office and leisure development in Edinburgh, has been fire protected with various materials selected from the portfolio of products developed by Alfreton based passive fire protection material manufacturer Cafco International.

We believe that Fendolite MII is the only passive coating system to have full Lloyd`s Jet Fire type approval without a prescribed increase in material thicknesses and furthermore for Jet Fire rating periods of up to 4 hours.

Cafco International is currently supplying a massive 40,000 sq metres of Cafco Board to provide two-hour passive fire protection for the new Lowry Galleria complex, a multistorey retail and cinema development being erected directly adjacent to the famous Lowry Centre in Manchester.

The Øresund Tunnel forms part of the fixed link between Zeeland in Denmark and Scania in Sweden. The 16km long tunnel, island and bridge link consists of a four lane motorway and a dual track high speed rail line between Kastrup near Copenghagen and Lernacken near Malmö.

Before contemplating the subject of which fire protection system to use to protect against fire, it is first wise to distinguish between ACTIVE and PASSIVE fire protection techniques.

The traditional methods of installing mineral wool type fire protection boards are rapidly becoming a thing of the past thanks to the Cafclip. The only dry fix clip system than can give up to 120 minutes fire resistance when used with Cafco Board.