Fire Base cleats for Cold Rolled Buildings

It is quite common that fire boundaries are a consideration. The basic idea of a fire boundary is to protect your neighbouring land or property from any fire that might start in your building. There is a P313 code which building control adopt. Basically you need to create a suitable construction which would prevent the fire from moving from your property to another for a certain period of time. The method we normally adopt is designing a suitable fire base cleat, that will keep the columns upright, even in the event of a roof collapse from a fire. This method will also require a suitable cladding or outer skin to prevent the fire escaping. The columns would also need additional fire boards to protect the columns from the heat of the fire.

To ensure that the columns the base cleats are keeping upright, are indeed themselves uprght.

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