The existing facility consisted of a large foundry building, an office building and yard area. Cavanagh Foundry Ltd. received planning permission to upgrade the existing facility.  A new Melting Plant and Ancillary Building were proposed for the site.

The Ancillary Building has an internal floor area of approximately 1,230m², and included painting plant, a fabrication area, toilet facilities, and other ancillary processes; supporting the main process of ductile iron manufacture.  The melting plant building comprises a portal frame extension to the existing building, with an internal floor area of approximately 470m².  The melting plant building houses the foundry charging plant including two new induction furnaces, with associated transformer building, furnace cooling, and fume extraction plant.  The furnaces in the melting plant heat incoming raw materials to a temperature of approximately 1,500 °C, before the molten metal is dispatched to the casting line.

FT prepared and successfully submitted the fire certificate applications for these buildings.  Our scope of work included:

• Assessment of the means of escape from each building, including modifications to proposed building and site layouts so as to satisfy fire safety requirements
• Appraisal of the internal and external construction materials in relation to the control of fire spread
• Evaluation and review of access and facilities for the fire service, including provision of an above ground fire fighting water storage tank

FT subsequently procured the works contractor and supervised the construction of these buildings.

Work on the redevelopment of this existing waste facility was carried out on a phased basis.  FT were appointed for all four phases, to provide various consultancy services; including fire certification services for the refurbished materials recovery building, and new administration building.

The materials recovery facility was constructed in two phases, to allow ongoing operations to continue concurrently with construction works.  The finished building is a two span steel portal frame building of 30m clear span with a floor area of 2,400m².  The administration building is a two storey air conditioned office building (312m2 total floor area) of steel structure, precast concrete floors and architectural microrib clad façade.

FT prepared and successfully submitted the fire certificate applications for each of these buildings.  Our scope of work included:

• Assessment of the means of escape from each building, including modifications to proposed building and site layouts so as to satisfy fire safety requirements
• Appraisal of the internal and external construction materials in relation to the control of fire spread
• Evaluation and review of access and facilities for the fire service, including provision of an above ground fire fighting water storage tank

FT subsequently procured the works contractor and supervised the construction of these buildings.

FT prepared and successfully submitted the fire certificate applications for each building.  Our scope of work included:

• Assessment of the means of escape from each building, including modifications to proposed building and site layouts so as to satisfy fire safety requirements
• Appraisal of the internal and external construction materials in relation to the control of fire spread
• Evaluation and review of access and facilities for the fire service, including provision of an above ground fire fighting water storage tank