EKLS Firestopping and ConstructionEK Life Safety Consulting also has a construction company specializing in life safety code building and renovations. EKLS Firestopping and Construction infuses life safety code expertise with experienced firestopping construction and maintenance. Smoke Damper inspections, repair and maintenance of Fire and Smoke Rated Wall assemblies are just a couple of examples of our specialization.
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Fire-Rated Wall Inspection and Repair
EK Life Safety Consulting has always offered inspections of Fire-Rated walls, but now has added EKLS Firestopping and Construction which features specialized repair services for walls and other assemblies requiring a fire rating. These walls include smoke and fire barriers, hazardous area enclosures, stairways and elevator enclosures, occupancy separation walls, and other fire-rated assemblies. Periodic inspection of Rated-Walls not only keeps the facility in compliance with Life Safety code requirements, but also keeps your residents safe and you reassured. Ongoing reviews typically result in substantial cost savings by avoiding costly penalties from this often-cited deficiency.
EK Life Safety Consulting conducts complete inspections of Rated-Walls assemblies to ensure they are maintaining their original rating - designed to save the lives of your residents or patients in case of fire.
For example, EK Life Safety Consulting will:
- Locate Fire-Rated walls on floor plans or by inspection
- Ensure conditions that require Rated-Walls in fact have them
- Examine interstitial and attic spaces to ensure Fire-Rated walls extend from outside wall to outside wall, and from floor to deck
- Inspect Fire-Rated walls for penetrations due to cables, wires, etc.;
- Determine solutions for repairs depending on penetration location and size
- Inspect doors or other openings in Fire-Rated walls for proper installation and operation
- EKLS Firestopping and Construction will bring Smoke Barriers and Fire-Rated walls to compliance with their intended rating by properly and expertly implementing repairs.
Rated-Door Inspections
EK Life Safety Consulting also offers Rated-Door Inspections. Periodic inspections of your Rated Doors not only keeps you in compliance for Life Safety and licensing but also keeps your residents or patients safe and you reassured. This type of ongoing review typically results in substantial cost savings to our customers by avoiding costly citation fees and provides the life saving reassurance of your resident’s well being. EK Life Safety Consulting conducts complete inspections of Rated-Doors to ensure they are maintaining their original fire rating - designed to save the lives of your residents in case of a fire.
For example, EKLS Firestopping and Construction will:
- Locate the Rated-Doors on floor plans or by inspection
- Test Smoke Barrier Door’s automatic required release during fire alarm activation
- Inspect the Rated-Doors for proper dimensions according to regulations
- Measure and test resident room Doors as well as Doors opening into corridors
- Determination of compliance and suggested repair solutions
- Repair, construct or install Rated-Doors as per life safety code requirements
Smoke and Fire Damper Inspections
Did you know that both smoke dampers and fire dampers in the facility’s HVAC ducts require periodic inspection and maintenance? For example, Texas Nursing Facility licensure requires all smoke dampers to be inspected quarterly and repaired as needed. NFPA 90A (1999 ed), governing HVAC systems for almost all healthcare-related facilities, requires all dampers (both fire and smoke) to be inspected not less than every four years. Some buildings have 50 to 75 dampers, and even more. Do you know how many dampers are in your building, and when they were last inspected?
Periodic inspections of your Smoke and Fire
Dampers not only keeps you in compliance for
Life Safety and licensing but also keeps your
residents safe and you reassured.
This type of ongoing review typically
results in substantial cost savings to our
customers by avoiding costly citation fees and
provides the peace of mind knowing your
resident’s well being is being protected.
EK Life Safety Consulting conducts complete inspections of Smoke and Fire Dampers to ensure they are maintaining their intended capabilities to save the lives of your residents in case of a fire.
For example, EK Life Safety Consulting will:
- Locate the Smoke and Fire Dampers on floor plans or by inspection
- Examine the Dampers to determine their position
- Test the alarm system to initiate the Damper functionality
- Re-examine the Dampers to determine their position after alarm activation
- Provide documentation of our findings
- Repair or install fusible links or any other damper functionality