In 2019 more than 271 Primary Schools and 209 Secondary Schools suffered fire damage.
A fire and smoke safety area that has been ignored, and should be addressed, is the non-fitment of smoke stoppers in perforated decking, even though it has not been confirmed yet that smoke travels through the perforation, it does not mean that it hasn’t been a big factor to deaths from fire due to the missing plugs. We never thought that cladding would contribute significantly to the fire but it did.
Thameside Fire Stopping Ltd, “patented” a solution called “Cori-Seal Systems” a solution for overcoming missing smoke plugs. The breathability of the building is balanced with the ability to prevent the passage of smoke and fire. If smoke travels along a ceiling, from one room to another via the perforated deck, it could fill the corridor that was designed as a ‘means of escape’. Imagine the risk of a fire in a room off to one side of a corridor with smoke rising to the deck perforations, traveling along the deck, cooling, with smoke dropping through the perforations into the escape route.
Thameside Fire Stopping Ltd themselves offer a complete package for all fire stopping solutions. The patented Cori-Seal Systems.
Email: info@cori-seal.co.uk
Date: 1 September 2026
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