The Shergold-Weir ‘Building Confidence’ report highlighted major compliance failures in constructed buildings, identified an underperformance by authorities, consultants, contractors and government regulators, and singled out significant concerns with performance-based design solutions.
Many facilities include complex performance-based fire safety strategies requiring particular maintenance and testing regimes. The understanding of these systems is often very poor due to lack of documentation and inadequacies in the operation and maintenance of these systems has become a significant compliance issue.
Preventing or fixing these problems does not have to be a difficult task. This presentation will explain the nature of typical performance-based smoke hazard management systems and set out how to identify if there is an issue with how a system is operating, being maintained and managed. Strategies and methods to address issues that may be identified will be explained to show a clear way forward to ensure regulatory maintenance requirements can be met.
