Bringing fire safety into sharp focus at the earliest possible stage
Early inclusion of fully compliant, certified smoke ventilation within the development mix ensures that building design is enhanced by a thought-through, carefully considered, precisely specified and correctly installed system.
FUMO services
FUMO helps developers, contractors and building designers to become better informed about smoke ventilation systems. We work to make ventilation and integral part of the building design process from the very start, providing professional guidance and advice at the earliest stage.
Our approach fosters and understanding of the critical role smoke ventilation systems play in protecting lives and property and how each system needs to be carefully designed from the start to meet the specific requirements of each building.
How FUMO helps:
- Provides outline builder works schematic and critical system details
- Creates layout drawings
- Delivers design assurance documentation covering: System selection tree, concept design, product specification guidance
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Early-stage building design
FUMO provide a tailored design service geared to developing a smoke ventilation system that’s exactly right for your particular project. Our design team is fluent in the latest CAD systems and independent CFD modelling. Our preferred way of working is to involve our designers at the early stages of a project. This way we ensure the building footprint is correct. We also frequently put forward upfront designs to aid developers and consultants involved with tricky concepts. Our designers work to all relevant standards and strictly adhere to SCA Guidance Notes. They combine meticulous attention to detail with a level of technical expertise that allows them to find solutions to even the most demanding challenges.
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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Drawing on CFD before any building design or construction work has been finalised allows us to determine the safest option for a particular development. CFD allows us to make sure that all possible fire scenarios are covered by a proposed system, ensuring the highest standards of fire safety are met.
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Certification
As a member of the Smoke Control Association, FETA and the IFC, we are certified to verify, inspect, design and install active smoke control systems. This means we take care of compliance assurance so that you don't have to.
Integrating smoke ventilation into building design
With many building projects, fire safety is treated almost as a 'bolt-on' rather than an integral part of building design and development. The result is a fragmented way of working in which fire safety doesn’t always receive the thought and attention it needs.
FUMO changes this way of doing things by placing fire safety on the agenda right at the start of building design.
The value of CFD modelling
FUMO’S early-stage smoke ventilation guidance combines our team’s vast experience of fire safety matters with our expertise in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), which we deploy before any building design or construction work has been finalised.
Working in this way, we can determine the safest option for particular development and ensure that all possible fire scenarios are covered by a proposed system. The end result: the highest standards of fire safety are met.
Compliance assurance
FUMO ensures right from the start that your building projects will:
- Incorporate the most advanced smoke control technologies, all CE marked
- Enjoy the assurance of IFC approved installation and complete compliance with all relevant EN standards