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Fire Safety Engineering

Fire Safety Certificate Application

A fire safety Certificate application is required to be submitted for the following:

- Construction of any new building (with the exception of single dwelling house and agricultural buildings)
- Material alterations to existing buildings (with the exception of offices and retail where no new floor space has been provided.
- Extension to existing buildings.

Ryan & Associates can submit this application on your behalf and liaise with the Local Authority until a decision is made by the Local Authority. As part of the application, the applicant is required to submit duplicate copies of drawings and a detailed report outlining compliance, in addition to an application fee. If you don’t have drawings that is no problem, we can come out and survey the building on your behalf and prepare the drawings.

The Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.1. No 351 of 2009) came into effect on the 1st of October 2009.

The 2009 Regulations introduce a number of significant changes including:

- Revised Fire Safety Certificate Applications (FSCA) Process – A revised FSCA is required where a design of a building is revised to comply with the conditions attached to a grant of planning permission or where significant revision is made to the design or works in respect of which a Fire Safety Certificate has been granted.
- Regularisation Fire Safety Certificate – A fire safety certificate application which accounts for works carried out prior to obtaining a Fire Safety Certificate. i.e. exisitn buildings.
- 7 Day Notice - A “7 Day Notice” must be submitted to a Building Control Authority (BCA) where commencement of work is imminent.

Where prescriptive approaches to design of the building cannot be achieved, the use of Fire Safety engineering principles can be used to demonstrate equivalent compliance. This can be achieved through a variety of different methods including:

+ CFD analysis
+ Smoke calculations and modelling
+ Evacuation analysis
+ ASET vs RSET calculations

Ryan & Associates can use Fire Safety Engineering principles to assist achieve the design solution you require.

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