Siderise launches Go Beyond campaign in support of Best Practice

When it comes to life safety in the built environment, it’s essential to ensure that construction products are tested to standards relevant for their application and, importantly, that they’re installed correctly. This is particularly the case when it comes to the passive fire protection measures used for compartmentation, which must be considered at every stage in the construction journey: from design and specification right through to installation, sign-off and building handover.

The company’s new brand initiative highlights how Siderise seeks to Go Beyond simply manufacturing cavity barriers and firestops. Its high-performance, robustly tested and third party-certified products and systems are underpinned by extensive technical support and services, as standard, in a determined bid to encourage Best Practice specification and installation, in addition to promoting higher building safety standards across the globe.

The whole process begins with the products and systems themselves, which are comprehensively fire tested to national and international standards. Indeed, Siderise has already subjected 300-plus products to over 280 large-scale system tests and more than 150 fire resistance tests.

This diligent approach to testing has been further fortified with a £1 million investment in the Siderise Innovation Centre. Operational from January this year, the Innovation Centre features a specialist fire test furnace, allowing the business to conduct R&D in a secure environment, expand the scope of use for its products, enhance quality control procedures and engineer more bespoke solutions than ever before.

Specification and installation

Even the best forms of passive fire protection can underperform if not specified and installed properly. In order to equip stakeholders with the right information and guidance, Siderise has developed one of the most well-resourced and highly trained Technical Services teams in the industry.

With a huge amount of product test data and decades of experience at their fingertips, the team members offer free assistance, including specification advice, detailing and engineering judgements.

This technical support continues out on site through the company’s dedicated Site Services team. In addition to providing project-specific advice, the team members were the first in the industry to have their product installation training delivery method certified to ISO 29993:2017. In the last year, they’ve delivered training for over 2,000 individuals and conducted upwards of 1,350 site visits, in turn helping to improve workforce competency on the ground.

As part of an enhanced services offer, Siderise also offers free installation inspections, either in-person or remotely via the Siderise Inspection App. The latter is a mobile app designed to enable installers to capture their installations and generate a report that can be checked away from site by Siderise’s technical engineers. This service also provides a valuable digital record of these hidden elements once the build is complete, subsequently supporting the vital golden thread of information, which can be passed over and used to inform any future maintenance or building work.

Value of partnership

Adam Turk (CEO at Siderise) explained: “When it comes to fire safety, we know that doing ‘just enough’ is never enough. Go Beyond not only describes what we see as our role in the passive fire protection arena, but also communicates the true value of partnering with us. Siderise has always sought to deliver a service that’s beyond what’s expected from a construction product manufacturer.”

Turk continued: “With Go Beyond, we’re now renewing our commitment to enhanced levels of service and communicating our understanding of our duty as experts in this life-critical field of construction. We openly provide trusted product information to the market and share our knowledge, wisdom and insight through a desire to help build competency and raise the bar for a better and safer global built environment for all.”

*Further information is available online at gobeyond.siderise.com