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Fire Safety Design Tools

When complete this page will have a full range of tools that will enable a check Fire Safety design

of all the commonly used fire safety parameters

God knows what I am going to use this button for
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Excel and HTML calculations

Technical spreadsheets and HTML derivatives that have saved me time over the years.

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New Guidance and Legislation

Guidance is contrantly changing in an atempt to upskill the workforce and align with the competency philosophy that has been adopted.

Horizontal Scanning

God know what this means, but it had to make an appearance. May provide a few non contraversial comments about how the industry is shaping bymoving the deckchairs around the patio.

What I am working on

Fire Resistance Calculator

This calculates the min period of fire resistance for elements of structure

Elements of structure

This establishes the fire resistance of the relevant elements of structure

Fire Resistance Video

A quick video to explain the reasoning behind fire resistance, the element of structures it applies to and the method of calculation

Reaction to Fire Video

A video that explains the reaction to fire classifications and their test methods

HRRB Safety Kit

Guidance Document for existing HRRB Buildings and Responsible persons

Fire Safety in progress

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Fire Safety in Progress

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Digital Building Regulation Support in progress

The intention is to provide digital support and technologically move Building Contol into the next chapter. Its hard to believe we are still stuck in the world of pdf format while the rest of the industry has complete co ordinated federalised models

With years of experience in building regulations, compliance and technoligal solutions, I understand the challenges faced by Building Control. The tools are designed to simplify common scenarios, we all know the situation we are attempting to demonstrate will never be decribed or follow diagrams provided in the guidance documents.

It would be great if subjective guidance can be converted in objective guidance

Who knows it may be possible