Passive Fire Protection in Healthcare Facilities
Providing fire protection for our nation’s top healthcare providers
The Heart of Our Communities
Serving as an essential hub for healing and wellness, healthcare facilities are our community’s mitochondria. Housing individuals who have limited mobility, cognitive impairments, or other medical conditions, the danger of fire is atypical. With a lower response rate, these individuals have a higher threat towards a fire outbreak.
Passive fire protection acts as a critical line of defense for these individuals. By compartmentalizing fires, passive fire protection prevents the rapid spread of flames, heat, and smoke.
This containment allows for more time residents and healthcare staff to evacuate the premises.
Why firestopping for healthcare facilities?
In addition to protecting the building’s occupants, passive fire protection also helps preserve the property itself.
By blocking off the fire into its location of origin, the damage of medical equipment, medications, and records are on a lower scale. Therefore, medical professionals can quickly resume their operations within these facilities.
Unlike in the situation, where passive fire protection was not specified.
Without the use of passive fire protection, the outcome of important medical equipment and records would be destroyed. This would cause the community to see major time delays in resolving healthcare issues.
Designed for Healthcare.
Acting as one of the main pathways for flame and heat spread, project teams need to address unprotected ceiling openings.
With the ceiling assemblies being either suspended or a “T-Bar” design, TENMAT has formulated the FF130-2’x2’ and FF130 – 2’x4’, a fire rated enclosure designed for troffer luminaires.
In addition to demanding fire protection for unprotected ceiling openings, hospitals often require a higher fire rating for its assemblies.
Therefore, TENMAT has crafted a 120-minute fire-rated solution for recessed light fixtures. Tenmat’s FF109X is designed to be fitted into suspended and drywall ceilings and offers two-hour UL-listed fire protection.
Fire Safety During Relighting Renovations
To ensure proper lighting is available during medical procedures, hospitals replace their lighting fixtures frequently.
However, when these facilities are undergoing renovations and installing temporary wall systems, it’s essential to have a fire-rated solution, which can be installed mess-free and stress-free.
At TENMAT, we offer a range of fully tested Passive Fire Protection products for assisted living and healthcare facilities, offering a quick and effortless way to maintain the fire rating where passive fire protection is required.
Passive Fire Protection for Through Penetration
Equipped with large-scale sanitary drainage and electrical wiring systems, through-penetration is another key opening for flames and smoke.
As a result, Tenmat offers a full line of fire-rate solutions, designed for the small, irregular openings for through-penetration applications.
Tenmat’s UL-Listed FF160 Fire Protection Plug is a flexible and lightweight material. This advanced intumescent is ideal for retrofitting installations, as well as new construction of power and control cables, telecommunication cables, and optical fiber cables through sold floors or ceiling systems.
For even smaller, irregular openings, Tenmat’s FF360 Fire Protection Foam can fire-rate irregular, hard-to-access, and large penetrations fast and effectively.
Manufactured to Your Standards
In the conditions TENMAT’s pre-designed solutions do not only cater to an application in the healthcare or assisted living facilities, TENMAT has the manufacturing capabilities to accommodate unconventional and specialized applications for passive fire protection within healthcare facilities. Whether it is custom-fitting intumescent solutions to unique architectural configurations or developing innovative fire-blocking solutions for intricate healthcare infrastructure, TENMAT’s adaptability and commitment to meeting the latest demands in the industry that even the most unusual and complex fire protection needs in healthcare facilities can be met with precision and effectiveness.
Please reach out to one of Tenmat’s team members at
+1-800-821-3436
for further assistance.
TENMAT’s Passive Fire Protection Solutions for healthcare facilities offer:
Solutions with extended hourly fire ratings
Flexible Material – Ability to be fitted around obstacles or retro-fitted
Easy Installation – Allows for shorter lead times in fully-running operations
Proven and Approved Fire Testing – UL Listed