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UL Qualified Firestop Contractor Program
FCIA announces that the 1st UL Qualified Firestop Contractor is FCIA Member Gleeson Powers, Inc., Franklin, MA.
Do you want your firm to get qualified by UL? Read the program steps in the right column...or call the FCIA Office!
Do you want to become a UL Designated Responsible Individual (DRI)? Become an FCIA Member and attend an FCIA Conference and get the DRI Test Prep Education free of charge. Non-members pay $295. Need to write a quality manual? FCIA's Quality Management System Education is offerred to members at $195, non members at $695.
Watch this FCIA Website page as more contractors become qualified in this important program.
FCIA Member UL Qualified Firestop Contractors
#) Contractors with branches
*) Contractor that is a branch of another member
Important information about UL Qualification :
Quality Manual Checklist for contractors interested in becoming a UL Qualified Firestop Contractor
Quality Manuals are an important part of the Firestopping Quality Managment Process. To prepare for UL's Qualified Firestop Contractor Program audit, the Specialty Firestopping Contractor needs to understand what the auditor will look for. Use this checklist as a guide to prepare your firm's quality manual.
UL Qualified Firestop Contractor Program Requirements
Learn the requirements to become a UL Qualified Firestop Contractor.
UL Fire Resistance Directory User Guide
Want to learn how to navigate the UL Directory? Here's a presentation from UL's Rich Walke, that deciphers the mystery of the UL Fire Resistance Directory.
UL Qualified Firestop Contractor Program Requirements document 70-FS-S0025 and Checklist 70-FS-F0026
For more information about how to become an UL Qualified Firestop
Contractor, contact the FCIA Office at (708) 202-1108, or email
us.
FSA - UL's Fire and Security Authority Magazine
Issue 1, 2007
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The Total Fire Protection Solution Symposium for the Design, Specification, Building Offical, Fire Marshal, and Fire Safety Community.
Registration Closes:
Cost: Free to AHJ's, Architects, Specifiers.
Hours: 8:00-4:30 pm
Location: Various Locations in the US, Canada and other locations.
Contact: email bill@fcia.org.
UL, in partnership with FCIA (Firestop Contractors International Association) invites you to attend a comprehensive and informative new symposium for architects, specifiers and regulatory authorities. |
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FCIA worked with Underwriters Laboratories for 3 years in the development of the UL Qualified Firestop Contractor Program. The program's objective is to give Specialty Firestop Contractors a credible 3rd party Quality Management System Program to set themselves apart. This quantitative management system audit verifies that the contractor lives what they say in their quality manual every day, with special attention to how non-conformances are managed.
UL Qualified Firestop Contractors and the ASTM E 2174 & ASTM E 2393 Standards for the Inspection of Firestop Systems, are complimentary programs. A contractor who has invested in UL Qualification, inspected by a Consultant to the ASTM Standards, means quality contractors, with a project inspection to validate the installation quality process is working.
To become qualified, the contractor firm must employ a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI-UL), who must pass a rigorous industry test to become the key person in the firm responsible to upper management of the firestop contractor firm for the firestop systems selection and installation quality process. The firm must also have a written Quality Manual that outlines how firestop systems are
UL then audits the contracting firm's procedures in their Quality Manual to confirm that the firm's paper trail is in order for successful installation of Firestop Systems. A destructive test verifies that the paperwork process and the physical in place Firestop System match.
UL Qualified Firestop Contractor designation is only given those firms who have passed both the DRI Test and the Quality Management Audit Process. Follow up Audits are performed by UL Auditors yearly. DRI's must provide verification of CEU eligible Education sessions attended or retest again every three years .
The FCIA Firestop Contractor Members have donated time to develop and maintain this program which is a new trend in the Construction Industry ...... Quality Process Protocol program for Specialty Firestop Contractors that can be specified quantitatively for better Fire and Life safety in buildings. |
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