Fire Compartmentation

Description

Following a fire at St Richard Hospital in June 2017 a full survey of the fire compartmentation was completed to reassure the Trust that the fire integrity infrastructure was compliant to Health Technical Memorandum 05-02. The survey covered all three Western Sussex sites and has indicated a failure of the Hospitals Fire Integrity. The Trust has contracted the services of Lawrence Webster Forrest to undertake a full fire back stopping compartmentation survey of every Trust building. Outcomes of the survey indicated significant compartmentation failures and provided recommendations to aid achievement of compliance to HTM 05-02 and British Standard with regards to fire stopping. The survey found 4,305 breaches which the Trust Fire Officer and Estates Compliance Lead has categorised into five categories. For the purposes of this tender exercise the Trust will be looking to complete works on ALL priority 1 and priority 2 areas in the 2019-20 financial year. We estimate that a further three years of work will be required to correct all of the breaches (priorities 3, 4 and 5) in the infrastructure and will be the subject of a separate tender exercise.