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When you are a facility owner or facility manager, fire and life safety must be a top priority.
Every year billions of dollars in property damage occur. Thousand of injuries and fatalities as a result of structure fires. For example, in 2010 the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) reported structure fires caused 37 percent of fires. 2,755 deaths and $9.7 billion in property damage happened that year. Why did this occur? Building structures had poor flame and smoke containment because inadequate sealed joints and penetrations for plumbing, HVAC, electrical communications interfered with firestop systems.
These catastrophes can be prevented with improved fire stop systems specification and installation awareness from architects, engineers, contractors, code inspectors and building owners.
When firestop systems are properly installed, proper compartmentalization services for fire and life safety engineering can be available for your building structure.
G & M Services can provide you with proper fire stop systems as well as proper sealing of wall, ceiling and floor penetrations. We can also inspect joints for optimum passive containment of smoke and flame to reduce the risk of massive property damage and loss of life.
FireStop is a division of G & M Services, LLC. The safety of others is very important to us, and we have standards and proper procedures in place to make sure that all FireStop services are installed properly. Improper Installation of FireStop materials can result in potential injuries and/or risk to lives in the event of a fire. Proper installation of FireStops save lives!
Review our Firestop products and services here or call us today at (410) 766-2210 to learn more.
G & M Services, LLC is your resource for Concrete Sawing, Drilling, Ground Penetrating Radar (Concrete Scanning), and FireStop services for the Maryland, Baltimore, DC and Virginia Areas. Counties include:
Maryland: Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Montgomery, Prince George’s, and St. Mary’s
Virginia: Arlington, Dorchester, Fairfax, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, Howard, Kent, Loudoun, and Prince William
West Virginia: Berkley, Jefferson, Morgan, Queen Anne’s, Somerset, Talbot, Washington, Wicomico, and Worcester District of Columbia
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Source: http://www.achrnews.com/articles/121238-firestop-campaign-launched
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