SFS have been appointed to upgrade the seventeen storey Tower development in Liverpool. The soffit of all the floors of the tower required to be upgraded to R120. The two-way spanning soffit had a low inherent fire resistance but SFS was appointed to upgrade the Tower block soffits with the paint system. Cost and speed of application were the determining factors in selecting SFS.

SFS have been appointed to upgrade the fire resistance of concrete columns and shear walls which had been found to have insufficient concrete cover. The student accommodation blocks has insufficient cover to the reinforcement on the columns throughout one block of the project and our paint system has been selected to replace the missing cover.

The seven storey office block is a permitted development which had one way spanning ribs which had a low inherent fire resistance of R30 and the requirement after fire engineering required R90 throughout the building , with plant areas needing further enhancement to R120. SFS have been appointed to upgrade the slab with the intumescent paint.

SFS have been appointed to upgrade the Clay Pot soffits of a prestigious Westminster development. The project is quite complex as it involves upgrading an old clay pot soffit. The paint system that SFS uses has been specifically tested for upgrading the fire resistance of combination slabs.

SFS have been appointed to upgrade the fire resistance of concrete columns and shear walls to a new build student accommodation project in Birmingham. Due diligence by the new contractor discovered that there was insufficient cover to the shear walls and columns throughout the nine storey structure. SFS will replace the missing cover with an application of intumescent paint.