CASE STUDIES
CASE STUDY 1:
CHILTERN BUILDING
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SECTOR: SOCIAL HOUSING
SERVICES: FIRE DOORS
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Client: Mulalley
Main Contractor: Mulalley
Location: Southend-On-Sea, SS2
Contract Value: £600,000
Contract Duration: 8 weeks
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SUMMARY OF WORKS:
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Installation of 140 front entrance doors plus communal fires screens and doors across 15 floors of 16-storey residential block.
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Chiltern building is one of the tower blocks on the Queensway Estate in Southend-On-Sea which is benefiting from regeneration works.
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CASE STUDY 2:
DU CANE COURT
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SECTOR: PRIVATE HOUSING
SERVICES: FIRE DOORS
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Client: Dorrington PLC
Main Contractor: Calfordseadon
Location: Balham, SW17
Contract Value: £500,000
Contract Duration: 12 weeks
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SUMMARY OF WORKS:
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Upgraded existing front entrance door sets (originally 1930's doors) to the required FD30 standard.
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Updated communal door sets to the required standard for smoke control.
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Installed concealed door closers, ironmongery and frame smoke seals.
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Internal trims removed, frames adjusted, intumescent mastic added to frame perimeter, ensuring gaps to perimeter of frame/leaf are 3mm (+/-1mm).
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Planned an appointments schedule with the main contractor to complete 4 door upgrades per day.
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On completion of door upgrades to be compliant, LFS issued certification under BM Trada maintenance scheme.
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CASE STUDY 3:
ST. GEORGE'S WHARF
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SECTOR: COMMERCIAL OFFICES
SERVICES: FIRE STOPPING
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Client: Berkeley Group
Main Contractor: Homepride Building Services
Location: Vauxhall, SW8
Contract Value: £7,000+
Contract Duration: 2 weeks
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SUMMARY OF WORKS:
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Compartmentation works to the restaurant area of the building.
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Fire stopping works to various penetrations
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Installing unicollars around soil vent pipes (SVPs​).
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CASE STUDY 4:
BLUE FINN BUILDING
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SECTOR: COMMERCIAL OFFICES
SERVICES: SURVEYS & FIRESTOPPING
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Client: Broadgate Estates
Location: Southwark, SE1
Contract Value: £6,000+
Contract Duration: 2 weeks
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SUMMARY OF WORKS:
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Carried out a survey for compartmentalisation works needed in the £415 million, 16 level floor-to-ceiling glazed building.
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Conducted a detailed, comprehensive fire stopping survey.
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Survey included a marked out floor plan of all the areas of where fire stopping work was needed and a detailed breakdown for each penetration highlighted.
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LFS carried out the works essential to the building, which included fire stopping over 1000 penetrations to compartmentalise the basement levels to the building.
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CASE STUDY 5:
CROFTON INFANT & JUNIOR SCHOOLS
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SECTOR: EDUCATION (PUBLIC)
SERVICES: FIRE DOORS
Client: Ridge & Partners LLP
Main Contractor: LFS
Location: Bromley, BR5
Contract Value: £315,000+
Contract Duration: 12 weeks
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SUMMARY OF WORKS:
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Time critical project with the renewal of fire doors to FD30 door set installs and overhead glazing replacements across two schools
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Fire stopping across escape routes.
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Replaced over 125 single and double FD30 door sets.
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High level overhead glazing replaced.
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High level glazing boarded over to 30minutes resistance.
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Access entry system installed for main reception doors.
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Partition walls constructed to 1 hour fire resistance.
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6 number doors upgraded.
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CASE STUDY 6:
BANK OF ENGLAND
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SECTOR: COMMERCIAL OFFICES
SERVICES: SURVEYS
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Client: Bank of England
Location: EC2R
Contract Value: £10,000+
Contract Duration: 2 weeks
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SUMMARY OF WORKS:
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Invited to survey the entire building’s doors and fire stopping to determine which corridors and rooms need their doors upgrading and/or replacing.
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Contract included a heavy vetting process to allow access in to the building.
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Carried out a comprehensive survey in excess of 835 doors; mixed between communal, office, various riser and vault area doors.
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Doors included specialist heritage doors and security doors.
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Carried out a survey of all fire stopping works needed in all riser areas of the building.
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