Client : North West Ambulance Service
Sector : Healthcare
Service : Passive Fire
Location : North West
In September 2023, Fieldway were awarded the contract by the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) NHS Trust to deliver Fire Compartmentation Surveys for 99 properties within their portfolio including training centres, office buildings, garages and more.
The North West Ambulance NHS Trust is one of the largest ambulance trusts in England, providing services to a population of around seven million people across 5,400 square miles of the Northern region. The trust headquarters is in Bolton; there are three area offices in Cheshire and Merseyside (Liverpool), Cumbria (Carlisle) and Lancashire (Preston).
From our head office in Huyton, Fieldway were able to deliver our services locally, with expedited timescales and swift contract completion.
Experienced Undertaking of Compartmentation Surveys
Compartmentation surveys are an essential part of our passive fire protection service offering; Fieldway are certified by the third-party certification scheme FIRAS, denoting our dedication to delivering the rigorous standards of fire protection to all of our customers, for all fire protection works.
Our surveyors systematically attended the numerous NWAS sites, using postcode data to build an efficient schedule that maximised the number of surveys completed each day.
Each survey included a thorough visual inspection that identified areas requiring fire stopping remediation – void spaces, penetrations and openings, the need for fire doors and fire resistant materials.
Our surveyors made use of the application OneTrace to specify these areas, and link their recommended actions to each location. They uploaded a copy of each site’s blueprint to OneTrace, and ‘pinned’ locations on the drawings to highlight the specific position in need of fire stopping measures, accompanied by photographic evidence to document the extent of compartmentation necessary.
This process was repeated at all 99 sites; each report generated was assessed by a second surveyor for further recommendations, and then shared with NWAS for the implementation of fire protection solutions.
