Each service is defined tightly on purpose. An inspection firm sells one thing: the belief that what it wrote down is what it saw. Every boundary below protects that.
A visual, non-destructive survey of an existing building that establishes what passive fire protection exists and what condition it appears to be in. Penetrations and joints are located, photographed and recorded as observed: where a system carries a label or can be matched to the building's documentation, that is recorded; where it cannot, the record says so. Each item is noted as appearing to be in serviceable condition or appearing to need work. The result is an inventory — and where the client can provide drawings, it can be recorded digitally against them.
The inventory becomes a living record. Assets are tracked on a cloud-based field-management platform against a defined data dictionary, reviewed at an agreed interval, and the owner receives an annual status summary showing exactly what was reviewed, what needs attention, what was repaired, and what PFS has and has not re-inspected.
Existing · Reviewed · Follow-up Required · Repair Documented · Re-Review Required. PFS records what it observed against a listed system on a date. It does not certify compliance, and a status field is exactly where a client, an installer or a lawyer would later read a certification into the record.
Independent third-party inspection, during construction, of installed systems against the CAN/ULC-S115 listed systems the inspection documents call for — penetration firestop systems by the procedures of ASTM E2174, fire-resistive joint systems and perimeter fire barriers by the procedures of ASTM E2393. The verification method, and the sampling that follows from it, are agreed with the authorizing authority before work starts. The notification schedule and the communication method for deficiencies are agreed with the installer before installation begins. Forms are sequentially numbered, one per system type. Every deficiency is documented on the form and physically identified on site.
Deficiencies advised to the installer within one working day — required by ASTM E2393; under ASTM E2174 the notice period is agreed before installation, and PFS's is one working day. Inspection forms issued within one working day after an area is inspected — both practices. Inspection of completed work within two working days of the installer's notice — both practices. Re-inspection of repaired work within two working days of the installer's notice — required by E2174, recommended by E2393, and PFS's commitment under both. Minimum sampling follows the practice for the method selected: for penetrations, witnessing at least 10 % of each system type during installation, or post-installation verification of at least 2 % and not fewer than one of each type per floor or 10 000 ft² area; for joints, witnessing at least 5 % of the linear feet of each type, or post-installation sampling by a method approved by the authorizing authority and the AHJ, at least once per type per 500 lineal feet. A failed system is re-inspected after repair and one further full sample of that type is taken. When non-compliance reaches 10 % of the quantity of a type inspected, inspection of that type ceases until the installer has inspected and repaired its own work. All of this is written into PFS's procedures and calculated on every project.
A review of the contractor's firestop turnover package — approved submittals, the CAN/ULC-S115 listings actually relied on, the location schedule, installer qualifications, labelling, inspection and remediation records, judgements, as-builts — for completeness and internal consistency. What is there, what is missing, what does not match, and what that means.
Specification review under Section 07 84 00 (Firestopping) for owners and design teams, and non-project-specific support for contractors — QA/QC templates, workflow, listing education and general technical training.
Describe the building or the project. We will tell you what we would do, what we would not, and why.