The BIM approach and the fire design
BIM’s design approach offers an increasingly indispensable resource. Professionals with different skills simultaneously update the environment. This speeds up execution times, prevents design inconsistencies and reduces uncertainties and waste.
Legislation in most European countries set when the design, construction and management of building works should be carried out using BIM. Increasingly more projects fall under this obligation yearly.
However, a dedicated fire design software module is missing.
The detail required for the proper design of passive fire protection measures in a BIM environment is high. The main market design programmes do not have standardised native support tools. As a result, the professional is left with a great deal of discretion over the performance levels needed for the adopted safety systems (EI 120, “120 minutes”, “120”, “2h”).
In fire protection solutions, there is difficulty in manually entering one-to-one BIM objects and checking the supporting certifications. These activities can be cumbersome even when there are manufacturer-predefined libraries.
AF Firestop: the missing solution
AF Firestop is your digital assistant for fire compartmentation management that can be integrated into your digital work environment.
Your project's guide to the correct choice of the most suitable fire protection BIM products.
AF Firestop is your digital assistant for fire compartmentation management that can be integrated into your digital work environment.
Your project’s guide to the correct choice of the most suitable fire protection BIM products.
Always supporting designers, AF Systems is pleased to propose a new plugin that can be integrated with Revit to overcome difficulties caused by low-level language standardisation and one-to-one insertion of BIM objects: AF Firestop. With this solution, designers engaged in fire safety will find a ready-to-use BIM object library which is a valuable aid in identifying critical issues, analysing certified solutions and positioning fire protection systems directly within the project.
AF Firestop analyses the nature and degree of fire resistance of each structure present and compares the data with certified AF Systems’ data to propose certified solutions already modelled on specific project geometries without leaving Revit.
- Compatible with Autodesk® Revit®, version 2017 and later.
- Free download on request (limited number of users for Beta version).
Why AF FIRESTOP?
AF Firestop makes the design and insertion of fire protection systems efficient.Advantages
Analysis completeness and depth: AF Firestop Plugin considers the relevant details for selecting the fire protection system coded in the BIM project.
Certified system security: supporting documents are accessible with one click. Objects are modelled directly by the manufacturer.
Implementation speed: with the automation of modelling and fitting operations, the project’s inclusion of fire protection products is considerably faster than the manual approach.
What makes AF FIRESTOP unique?
Here are some of the features that make AF Firestop an innovative product unlike any other:
- Automatic detection of all points in the project that need fire protection.
- Selection of the best-certified solution and extension to other applications.
- Positioning of AF Systems BIM products with one click.
- It is possible to export the product calculations needed to implement the fire compartmentalisation and the report of the applied solutions.
Get an AF Firestop preview for free!
AF Firestop is available as a BETA version for a limited number of users, who can enjoy its benefits and contribute to developing new features.
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