Thanks to Gladys for sharing this from workers on the stadium.
They are at the point where they can offer halfish of the Fire loops (c. 70 of 140) to the commissioning manager to witness (i.e. they say they have tested themselves).
The commissioning manager (who as it’s life safety has to witness 100% of the loops) sign off sheets would then be part of the pack submitted to the Building Control Officer [ person charged with signing it off on Haringey’s behalf] for sign off, along with Tyco’s [Tyco are Tyco Integrated & Security] own certificate that it’s in line with the Building Standards.
The Building Control Officer can then choose how much he wants to witness before signing the fire systems off as safe, largely depending on the quality of install and testing he’s seen to date.
The Building Control Officer’s visit the Friday before last was enough of a shambles to result in them saying we’re not coming back until we’ve got 100% of the certs from the commissioning manager (which isn’t unusual).
However the backs are so against the wall at the stadium that when you string this ‘back to backing’ of programming activities out i.e. Tyco having to prove and document that they are fully done first, then Core witnessing the lot before the Building Control Officer will even look at it, then the final test events having to be after this sign off, plus the realisation of how far back Tyco really are it’s become clear that mid September is pie in the sky…as many had suspected.
Additionally, all this work now involves accessing parts [pipes] in the structure which are now no longer exposed.
It has be also been suggested that pre-Grenfell this work may have passed muster.
The suggestion from the workers spoken to is that there are other issues, however they refused to expand as this would ‘definitely’ identify them.
How is September ‘pie in the sky’?
3 month contracts are up for grabs.
