Siderise completes CCPI assessment process for passive fire protection products

With approval already gained for its CW-FS Firestop range for curtain walling earlier in the year, this now means that all of the company’s main passive fire protection ranges carry this Best Practice mark, providing greater confidence that the information surrounding them is “clear, accurate, up-to-date, accessible and unambiguous”.

In order to gain a CCPI mark, companies’ products are subjected to a rigorous and independent assessment process, which also includes assessing that the leadership and business culture within the business aligns with the ethos of the CCPI, as well as providing information and clear evidence of conformance to each of the Code’s applicable eleven clauses.

In line with its long-term commitment to ‘integrity in all we do’, achieving CCPI conformance for these core product ranges is just one element of Siderise’s wider strategy to support accurate specification and a safer built environment.

Holistic specification

Lee Nichols, technical director at Siderise, explained: “Following the introduction of the Building Safety Act 2022 and in particular Gateway 2 for higher-risk buildings, we understand that specifiers – whether they’re architects, fire engineers or contractors – must feel confident in the information they’re using to make decisions and be able to access robust and assessed product data in the format they need.”

Nichols continued: “We have aligned obtaining the CCPI mark for our core products with developing a more holistic specification support package, including the creation of new Specification Packs that summarise the relevant product information for the designated application. Building our partnership with the NBS is important.”

Further, Nichols observed: “By having our core product ranges assessed in accordance with the Code, we’ve not only made a commitment to continuous improvement as the product set remains registered with the CCPI, but we also hope to communicate to our customers that we’re actively responding to the challenges they face when it comes to product information, in turn helping the industry to raise its collective understanding of the crucial importance of fire safety and fire testing.”

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