What's coming up for Contego.
April 10, 2020
In recent months and through the lock down Contego have been working on several projects with regard to Design & Specification.
This is a great task for us to be doing through the lockdown as it puts our specialist skills and knowledge to good use.
Current & recent projects where we have been providing Design & specification services for Passive Fire Protection
include:
Dunedin City Council Building Asset Passive Fire Guides
Contego have been engaged to prepare individual Passive Fire Guides for each of the DCC’s buildings within its asset portfolio. These guides are specific to each building and collect often decades of historical fire safety design into one easy to digest manual.
- The content is aimed at advising tenants, managers, incumbent contractors and future construction professionals on the intricacies of each building and how to maintain compliance of Passive Fire systems within the building
- This backs up our commitment to working with Building owners for the life of the building – not just today
Langlands Hotel Invercargill Structural Steel Fire Protection
Contego have been engaged to work with the Main Contractor & Design team on this 7 storey hotel in the centre of Invercargill. This hotel is a generational development for the city of Invercargill & will be a flagship building. Contego’s role is to develop the design of the Steel protection systems including Intumescent paint, Board protection and interfaces with other design elements.
- Contego are involved in fortnightly design meetings with Architect Warren and Mahoney, Fire Engineer GHD, Structural Engineer Beca, Project Manager TBIG, and Main Contractor Leighs Construction to deliver a complete Passive Fire design package for this complex design.
- Deliverables for our design include: Intumescent coatings loading schedule, Calcium silicate board design & loading schedule, Marked up drawings, Specification, QA control guide, and review & co-ordination of Architectural details
- Contego will be on site post lock down working with Leighs on this exciting project
Wakatipu High School Extension ECI
Contego have been engaged to provide ECI (early contractor involvement) with Southbase Construction for this significant extension to the High School building.Contego have been providing ECI advice with regard to all Passive Fire design and Acoustic design requirements.
- Southbase as the Main Contractor will be taking early design risk & therefore it is our role as ECI contractor to mitigate that design risk for them & the client (Ministry of Education)
- Deliverables for this project include: Preliminary Risk Register, Passive Fire penetration design, Intumescent Coatings Design & specification, Acoustic design, design co-ordination
- Contego have worked with Southbase on preliminary design and developed design details and will see this project through to construction
University of OtagoStudent Accommodation building (Te Rangi Hiroa) ECI
Contego are also working with Southbase on the ECI works for this exciting >$80M build for the University of Otago to provide over 400 beds for Student accommodation. Southbase as the Main Contractor will be taking early design risk & therefore it is our role as ECI contractor to mitigate that design risk for them & the client (University of Otago)
- Deliverables for this project include: Preliminary Risk Register, Passive Fire penetration design, Intumescent Coatings Design & specification, Acoustic design, design co-ordination
- Contego have worked with Southbase on preliminary design and developed design details and will see this project through to construction
Dunedin Public Hospital(SDHB) Existing building audit
Contego have been engaged by SDHB to provide an audit of existing building stock with regard to Passive Fire compliance
These audits involve a significant amount of desktop due diligence to go through decades of archives
The site audits are obviously on hold during lockdown. However, we are still preparing documents & reviewing all historical fire safety information for these complex buildings
These audits involve a significant amount of desktop due diligence to go through decades of archives
The site audits are obviously on hold during lockdown. However, we are still preparing documents & reviewing all historical fire safety information for these complex buildings
- Auditing an existing building such as a hospital or a civic building is a task that Contego have great experience in. We understand the historical nature of the buildings, sensitive operating environments.
- Sometimes these audits are prepared solely for long term budget advice for reporting and big picture maintenance budgets so that Passive Fire protection upgrades can be considered long term.
- Contego has developed a good working relationship with SDHB whereby our expertise with regard to Passive Fire protection and Hospitals is valued
Peer Review
Contego has been engaged to provide a peer review service for other contractors around the countryside.
This peer review service is provided as an independent service whereby the client can have confidence in the documentation, systems and installations provided by other contractors are compliant.
This peer review service is provided as an independent service whereby the client can have confidence in the documentation, systems and installations provided by other contractors are compliant.
- This is one way that full compliance evidence can be provided to clients and Building Consent Authorities at code of compliance phase
- Contego complete the peer review as a completely unbiased review with no ultimatum as works are being completed in areas outside of our operating territories.
The Passive Fire Protection Intumescent Coating Code of Practice suggests that this should be a collaborative effort between all design consultants to ensure all aspects are considered. This way of thinking is no different to any other collaborative effort in designing a building whereby multiple consultants need to talk & collaborate on a solution.
Assessments – ask the extra questions. As most Passive Fire Protection contractors are aware AS1530.4 & AS4072.1 assessments satisfy compliance with NZBC and Acceptable solutions. However, when utilising an AS4072.1 assessment I would urge a little extra caution.
South Island passive fire protection contractor Contego today announced that it will continue its business expansion by opening a new base in the North Island in December 2021. Located in New Plymouth, the branch is expected to employ 10 persons over the next 24 months. The business currently employs 35 personnel between its bases across the South Island.
Our managing director, Justin McEntyre outlines our top 5 tips for managing your building compliance with regards to passive fire protection.
It has been a busy summer for the Intumescent coatings division with projects right across the lower South Island.
Sadly I am hearing more or more frictions within the industry between Passive Fire Contractors and
consultants and Council inspectors.
I’m sure I’m not the only one that is experiencing weekly headaches with freight delays and lead time materials. What was once available down the road, can now be a lengthy delay to get a hold of it. The feedback I am getting from suppliers and contractors is that the worst is not over, and we should be planning to deal with this for the remainder of this year.
With the current codes of practice and Passive products annual renewal being worked through the issue of Tested vs Assessed is constantly brought up in conversation. NZBC accepts the use of AS4072.1 Assessments as a way of showing compliance as an equal with a tested solution in accordance with AS1530.4.
We are excited to announce that Contego have been selected as finalists within two categories at the 2020 Westpac Otago Business Awards. This year we have been selected as a finalist for the Excellence in Service Award and also the Future Business Leader Award.
Contego is proud to announce that we have been awarded a 3 year contract to provide IQP services to SDHB for all Passive Fire Systems including SS15.2, SS15.3, SS15.4, and SS15.5.