Our customer, Sennen Property Management, needed to perform an annual static pressure test of Dry Risers for a new block of flats in London. British Standard 9990 requires dry riser systems undergo an annual static pressure test and inspection and a six monthly visual inspection by a competent company.

RES has a dedicated Fire Hydrant and Dry Riser test team and equipment for its inspections. In order to carry out a Dry Riser test, a large bowser is needed along with a water pump to simulate a fire engines pump being connected to the dry riser column.

A dry riser is basically an empty pipe that runs up a building which can be externally connected to a pressurized water source by fire fighters. This vertical pipe can then distribute water to multiple levels of a building when fire fighting hoses are connected to an outlet valve typically located on each level.

A Dry Riser test involves sending pressurised water up the column to ensure that the pressure is maintained, that there are no leaks or faults and that the air release valve (located at the top of the column) is working correctly. The column needs to be able to maintain 8 – 10 bar of pressure for 15 minutes. The water that is sent into the column comes back out of a drain valve and back into the bowser, ensuring that water can be re-used for another test.

“At Sennen Property Management the safety of all our sites and the residents is paramount which is why we use RES as it gives us the peace of mind that all our fire safety systems are maintained to the highest standards.

High quality contractors are key to our business, and with RES we know we use the best in the industry to keep our sites compliant and safe for all our customer”

Tony Collings, Director, Sennen Property Management Ltd

Our customer was transitioning from temporary buildings to new school buildings and asked RES to provide extinguisher sales, installation, servicing and additional fire safety equipment for both the new and old sites.

RES provided a comprehensive proposal to cover all the necessary fire extinguisher equipment for the new school buildings.

RES also provided an audit of existing fire extinguishers from the temporary buildings so that they could be re-instated on the new site.

The Wren School is now a modern Secondary education establishment catering for over 1000 students.
It comprises of a sports hall and two L shaped buildings containing classrooms, laboratories, offices, restaurant/cafe and a theatre.

In total, over 50 new extinguishers were commissioned around the site as well as fire action signs, extinguisher stands, fire blankets and fire evacuation chairs on the stairwells.

RES has provided a competitive, comprehensive and compliant extinguisher equipment service for this new school and will continue to ensure total fire protection is provided by carrying out annual fire extinguisher servicing.

“RES helped us to stay safe whilst the development was underway and then continued to provide excellent service in our new home”

Cary Stubbs, Senior Caretaker, The Wren School

The head of estates at Leighton Park School asked RES to provide training in the form of a Powerpoint Presentation and an accompanying Fire Door Maintenance checklist that could be presented to caretakers and maintenance staff so that regular fire door inspections and minor maintenance issues could be addressed in-house.

RES provided a comprehensive PowerPoint Presentation titled “Inspection & maintenance guide to Fire Doors” that covered the following areas:

• Importance of having compliant fire doors
• The life-saving benefits of fire doors
• Five common fire door faults
• Checking fire doors
• Common terminology
• BS 9999:2017 Annex I Routine fire door inspections and maintenance
• Upgrading fire doors

Our Passive Fire Protection Team are available when required to present the PowerPoint to the caretakers and maintenance staff as well as providing an electronic copy for reference and use internally on site.

The “Fire Door Maintenance Check List” provided can be used by staff to regularly inspect and record all the fire doors at the school. RES can then easily be notified of any issues that require the attention of passive fire protection engineers. (Dowload available in our FREE DOWNLOADS)

Effective fire-resisting doors are vital to ensure occupants are able to evacuate to a safe place. Correctly specified and installed doors will hold back fire and smoke, preventing escape routes becoming unusable as well as preventing the spread of fire.

Our customer is now able to confidently inspect and maintain the fire doors on their premises, safe in the knowledge that RES are on-hand to address more serious defects such as upgrading doors, replacing doors and door-sets as required.

“Thank you and your team for the amazing effort you have all put in to support and guide us in our efforts to stay compliant.”

Alan Rumney – Head of Estates – Leighton Park School

We were contacted by the office manager of Fortinet asking if we could assist with the production of their fire evacuation plans. They were looking for high quality plans to be displayed within a number of meeting rooms as well as arrival and exit points, also having to take into consideration some entrance and exit alterations.

A meeting was set up with the client and various options were discussed such as sign size, styles, designs, and mounts. We came up with some basic ideas with an existing floor plan of the premises which we then provided to our plan designer.

Various examples and mounts were recommended and Fortinet decided to go ahead with a printed plan on an acrylic display with polished edges, set off the wall.

Proofs of the Fire Evacuation Plans were provided to the customer for final approval, a number of minor alterations were made to the proofs during this process, and they were successfully signed off. The order was placed and the design, supply and installation was scheduled with the customer.

Installation was then promptly made around the client offices and the job completed.

RES can provide a range of fire safety related plans for display and building fire document folders which meet the requirements of a premises Fire Risk Assessment as required by the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.

• Fire Evacuation and Procedure Plans
• Fire Escape Plans
• Fire Equipment Plans
• Fire Alarm Zone Plans
• Fire Compartmentation Plans
• Occupancy Assessment Plans

RES provides schools and businesses with a range of fire protection services including fire alarm servicing, servicing of fire extinguishers, fire safety signage services, fire safety training and fire hydrant testing.

As part of our schedule of works, we carry out the periodic inspection of the Fire Hydrants (which must be done every 6 months) in accordance with BS 9990 : 2015 Non-automatic fire-fighting systems in buldings Code of Practice.

By using the “TSI Digital Flowmaster 250”, the latest digital flow testing equipment available, our engineers are able to digitally record a fire hydrants water pressure and the flow rate reading to a 98% accuracy.

The latest equipment we use enables our engineers to provide an efficient and more reliable test environment than that of a traditional hydrant test equipment.

Our investment in this technology is part of our ongoing commitment to customer service and maintaining a high quality of work.