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Wood Court, located in South Road, Colindale, HA8, offers fully supported living across three floors of self-contained apartments, along with communal space for socialising, as well as lift access and car parking.  Despite its modern appearance and levels of physical comfort, considering the Building Safety Act’s renewed emphasis on fire safety, the trust’s management team were keen to ensure the property met all necessary standards, including the creation of adequate ‘protected zones’ along with compartmentation. 

KBH Building Services and one of its accredited sub-contractors, was duly awarded a design, supply and install contract to fit all necessary new barriers within the unusually restricted, pitched roof areas.  These were specified in conjunction with the FIREFLY® Technical Sales Manager. Ross Grey, Contracts Manager on the project for KBH commented: “We had a number of meetings on site with FIREFLY® Technical Manager, Andy Greenwood – and together we devised a specification which would meet all of the requirements.  It has been an interesting but challenging project due to the compartmentation lines & the different roof materials with very limited working space, which has necessitated employing a variety of FIREFLY® systems.     

 For instance, we employed the manufacturer’s ablative batts with cavity closer on top to the membrane areas as well as the fire curtain to create protected zones with Zeus Lite & horizontal to form compartmentation.  The ease of installation offered by the FIREFLY® systems has helped with working in such confined spaces, having so far installed some 500 square metres of  Zeus fire barrier and another 180 square metres of the ablative batts. “ 

FIREFLY® Technical Sales Manager, Andrew Greenwood added: “During my visits and inspections, I can confirm the work carried out was done to a very high standard ensuring competency & compliantly installed products. We expect the work to take up to four months in all, running through to February 2026.”

Manufactured from woven and non-woven glass, the FIREFLY® range 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 ensure a fully tested and certified installed system.