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FIREFLY® was brought on board early in the design stages for the £1.3 Billion scheme to upgrade and expand Terminal 1 and refurbish Terminal 3, which will eventually see the Northwest’s premier hub double in capacity. With construction giant MACE leading the project, London based LDD Construction is the specialist contractor installing the FIREFLY® Phoenix, Titan Lite and other products in four separate zones as passenger services continue with minimum disruption.    

The Technical Manager for FIREFLY®, Chris Boam, recounts: “From a FIREFLY® perspective, we were involved during the design stage of the Manchester Airport works, providing technical input, drawings and specification support to the design team at Pascall + Watson. LDD Construction, as an approved FIREFLY® installer with trained operatives, were well placed to deliver the compartmentation requirements across multiple areas of the airport.

Throughout the installation phase, we worked closely with LDD and their Project Manager, Pavel Yegorov, providing technical support and carrying out site visits to review compliance as the works progressed. Given the scale of the project and the constraints of working within a live airport environment, maintaining alignment with tested and approved fire protection details was a key focus throughout.”   

The Project Manager for LDD, Pavel Yegorov, recounts: “We have installed around 50 different products from different suppliers for our fire-stopping work, but FIREFLY® is what the client likes and asks for. We use the products like Phoenix, Athena and Titan Lite for all different purposes in our work, including fire compartmentation along long corridors and at the head of walls.”

“For instance, we have used the barriers above the under croft, where one-hour protection was required in the new terminal extension at Manchester Airport.  The sequence of work dictated by the other trades we were following here and the very restricted space, with all the services going through on two sides, made this quite a challenging project: having to deviate from the standard details in a lot of places. The Project Management Team from MACE and the other parties are all very happy with the work we have done.   We are on course to complete both works by the end of the year.”

Manufactured from woven and non-woven glass, the FIREFLY® range of flexible barriers is designed to optimise resistance to flame and smoke, as well as offer heat protection in a wide range of scenarios.  The barriers are easy to install horizontally or vertically using a full selection of FIREFLY® ancillary products to provide a fully tested and certified system.