About

Built to be independent, and to stay that way.

PFS Passive Fire Solutions Inc. was incorporated in 2026 to do one thing well: give building owners, design teams, contractors and authorities an independent, defensible record of the passive fire protection in a building — and then help keep that record true through the building's life.

The founder

Corey Beckett, Founder & Principal, spent close to twenty years on the installing side of the firestop industry before founding PFS — estimating, project management, tested-system selection, judgment review, quality assurance and closeout, most recently as a firestop division manager and the Designated Responsible Individual for a UL Qualified Firestop Contractor program. He has passed the UL Firestop Exam, one of the examinations IAS AC291 lists as a qualification for inspectors of fire-resistant penetration and joint systems.

He is active in the Firestop Contractors International Association (FCIA) — in its committees, and in code development and specification development for the industry — and is a former member of the Canadian Armed Forces. linkedin.com/in/coreybeckett08

How PFS is organized

PFS operates on the ISO/IEC 17020 Type A independence model. It has no ownership, employment or financial interest in any firestop installer, manufacturer or supplier, does not design, specify, install, repair or maintain firestop systems, and does not inspect any structure it has advised on. Every inquiry is screened for conflicts of interest before a proposal is issued, and risks to impartiality are identified, analyzed and recorded on an ongoing basis.

The quality system is built to the IAS AC291 Accreditation Criteria for Special Inspection Agencies — an ISO/IEC 17020 scheme — and PFS is pursuing that accreditation as a firm. The independence and scope statement — what PFS is, and what it is not — appears on every document PFS issues.

Standards

• CAN/ULC-S115, Standard Method of Fire Tests of Firestop Systems — the fire test standard the National Building Code of Canada requires fire stops to be tested to, and the standard the penetration firestop systems and joint firestop systems PFS inspects are listed to.
• ASTM E2307, Standard Test Method for Determining Fire Resistance of Perimeter Fire Barriers Using Intermediate-Scale, Multi-story Test Apparatus — the fire test the National Building Code requires for the joint between a floor and an exterior wall, and the standard the perimeter fire barriers PFS inspects are tested to.
• ASTM E2174, Standard Practice for On-Site Inspection of Installed Firestop Systems — the inspection practice PFS applies to penetration firestop systems.
• ASTM E2393, Standard Practice for On-Site Inspection of Installed Fire Resistive Joint Systems and Perimeter Fire Barriers — the inspection practice PFS applies to joint systems and perimeter fire barriers.
• ASTM E3038, Standard Practice for Assessing and Qualifying Candidates as Inspectors of Firestop Systems and Fire-Resistive Joint Systems — the practice PFS's inspector competence records are assessed against.
• ISO/IEC 17020:2026, Conformity assessment — Requirements for bodies performing inspection (the third edition, which replaced the 2012 edition in 2026), and IAS AC291, Accreditation Criteria for Special Inspection Agencies — the requirements the PFS quality system is documented against.
• The National Building Code of Canada, as it applies to fire separations and fire stops during design and construction.
• The National Fire Code of Canada, which requires fire separations and fire protection materials to be maintained, repaired or replaced in service, and records retained for the authority having jurisdiction.

The ASTM inspection practices name the US test methods in their materials clauses. In Canada the code requires CAN/ULC-S115 for penetration and joint firestop systems and ASTM E2307 for perimeter fire barriers, so PFS applies the practices' inspection procedures to systems listed to those standards, and records for each system type which listing standard the project actually relies on.

What you can expect

• A plain answer about whether PFS is the right firm for the work, before a proposal.
• A proposal that states what is included, what is excluded, and how many re-inspection visits the price carries.
• Findings recorded on the day they are observed, in observable terms, and never softened for anyone.
• Reports that state their own limits as carefully as their findings.
• Records retained for ten years from the final deliverable.

Passive Fire Solutions is a trade name of PFS Passive Fire Solutions Inc., a federally incorporated Canadian company registered extra-provincially in Alberta.