Five major trade bodies have collaborated on a Best Practice Design and Installation Guide in a bid to get building services penetrations to be considered earlier in the design process. The project partners say the guide, Firestopping of Service Penetrations, has been designed to "encourage all stakeholders in construction to consider firestopping design earlier in the process in order to avoid problems at a later stage in construction". Failure of compartmentation has been one of the key causes of fire spread in major fires such as Grenfell Tower and Lakanal House.
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