Concept Fire Suppression Ltd
Concept Fire Suppression Ltd is a pure fire suppression and detection specialist protecting your high value assets and critical processes. We provide you with a fully integrated fire suppression and detection system ensuring no issues left for you to sort out. From initial discussions and budgets through to completion and demonstration we can handle it all.
Services
- Design
- Equipment
- Installation
- Room Integrity Testing
- Room Sealing
- Commissioning
- Maintenance
- Support
Active fire protection can be used to protect many different areas and equipment but is not limited to the following:-
- Server Rooms
- Data Centres
- Communication Rooms
- UPS Rooms
- Restaurant Kitchens
- Clean Rooms
- Manufacturing
- Industrial Processes
- Electrical Switch Cabinets
- Boat Engine Rooms
We provide proposals to both end users and trade customers covering all the above or a selection depending on your requirements.
With extensive experience working in many different applications particularly Server/Comms Rooms, Data Centers and Restaurant Kitchens we understand your needs and requirements.
Why do you need Fire Suppression?
Most commercial buildings now have a fire detection system to protect the occupants and the building, but is just detecting the fire enough?
The problem with having just detection is that although you know you have a fire (the fire alarm sounders or bells are ringing) there is no way to safely suppress the fire yourself and that’s if you are there. The Fire Service will put it out when called but the smoke damage occurring before they arrive and the water damage after can be quite significant.
Fire suppression systems & automatic extinguishing systems are used to reduce the level of damage and down time by automatically suppressing the fire ready for the Fire Service to get there and ensure it is out and safe to return. This ensures that your critical processes within your business such as the server or communications room or manufacturing process etc are up and running again in the minimum time. The ultimate success of the extinguishing system is that your customers didn’t even know you had a fire.
The operation of the fire suppression system in a fire situation can greatly reduce in most cases the level of damage and with some cases very little loss of production and downtime. Leaving you to replace a small PCB or piece of equipment that caused the fire, rather than all the equipment within the room.
How do we protect with Fire Suppression?
Once a fire has been detected, we use one of the many suppression agents such as Inert gas (IG55), Clean Chemical Agents (FE-227, FM200 or Novec 1230), CO2, Wet Chemical Agents (Kitchen Knight II and Kitchen Mister) or Dry Powder to suppress the fire by removing one of the three elements of the fire triangle.
We can reduce or remove the oxygen, cool the fire or in some cases both cool and remove the oxygen. The decision to use different extinguishing agents will depend upon the type of materials present i.e. class B fires such as flammable liquids, each liquid is chemically different therefore there may only be one agent that can be used.
Other additional requirements are:-
- Sealed area or in the open
- Staffing
- Your environmental policies
- Fire Service attendance time
All these will be taken into account during our discussions and meetings with you, some are simple and straight forward some require a little more thought but we like a challenge.
How do you know it will work?
All our systems are designed around the various standards available usually UK or European. But where a UK or European standard does not exist e.g. Restaurant Kitchen Fire Suppression Systems, we use an international standard which in this case would be the US standard NFPA.
It is crucial that where we can only prove a system works in theory that we use these standards. They are continually updated to take into account the changing world we live in through the experience of fires, live tests and demonstrations. These ensure that very rigorous testing has taken place with large error factors built in to ensure that the risk is reduced at an absolute minimum.
We can where required carry out discharge tests to prove the system, but in most cases this is not necessary, usually this is at the request of an insurer or a US client.
All our suppression agent products unless stated will have been tested by 3rd party independent testing organisations such as LPCB or UL to confirm they operate properly.
Because we specialise in fire detection and suppression we can focus on what’s important to you helping you reduce the risk to your business, your clients and staff.Because we specialise in fire detection and suppression we can focus on what’s important to you helping you reduce the risk to your business, your clients and staff.
Active Fire Protection v’s Passive Fire Protection
Although m
any people want to view Active Fire Protection and Passive Fire Protection as competing products they are actually complimentary.
To understand why we need to look at the differences between the two. Active Fire Protection are products such as Fire Detection Systems and with Fire Suppression provides a way of not only detecting the fire but also suppressing it until the Fire Service arrive.
Passive Fire Protection is products such as Firestopping, Intumescent Seals and Boards whereby the integrity of the room is maintained or enhanced by the installation of the these products. This ensures that if a fire does occur that it is contained for a set period of time or in some cases protects the integrity of the structure such as structural steel work protection.
But having one without the other compromises the level of coverage. If a room has Active Fire Protection using Fire Detection and Suppression the fire would be detected and suppressed. but may re-ignite again if the integrity of the room has not been maintained using Passive Fire Protection.
And the same is true for Passive Fire Protection, if a room is only protected by Passive Fire Protection then a fire will be contained for the period of time specified but the damage to the room will be substantial. If the equipment in the room is of high value (not just monetary high value) such as data then the detrimental effect on the business would be quite dramatic.
So ensure you have both Active Fire Protection where it’s needed as well as Passive Fire Protection.
