Welcome to The Burn, Beyond Fire Stop. Our show is dedicated to life safety and code compliance in the built environment, which puts me on a mission to find the most interesting people in this space to get their unique perspective. Our hope is that our listening audience walks away with an understanding of how our guests and their businesses and organizations contribute to the promotion of life safety of whatever is being built. Our show is brought to you by Specified Technologies, Inc. Also known as STI Fire Stop. And since 1990 STI has been a leading global provider of innovative fire protective solutions that help stop the spread of fire, smoke and hot gases.
Our guest today is extremely familiar with such topics. Pat Tesche is the president of Global Fire Protection Group, which provides fire and life safety, engineering, consulting, and design services to customers throughout the world.
Pat is highly respected in the industry with over 30 years of experience in passive fire protection, and is well-recognized in the codes and standards world, you can often find him doing third-party inspection system audits or giving Fire stop training somewhere in the world.
Key Takeaways
- Volunteer Work
- Passion comes from his father, who volunteered with children during Pat’s childhood
- Currently Pat is on the board of Bert Bell Football Organization in the Philadelphia area
- Volunteered to give IFC inspector training for the NYC Transit Authority
- Passion for Fire Stop
- Went from being on the contractor side to going into inspection and consulting.
- Noticed a lack of training when it came to third party inspections.
- Worked with the FCIA, the IFC and other organizations to get the training out there.
- IFC Inspector committees and groups
- A-1 committee chair.
- Developed by third party inspector experts in the manufacturing group.
- 8-hour hands on program followed by a test.
- Fire Stop inspection committee
- Putting together a wood-frame group.
- Bringing Awareness to the Construction Industry
- Explain code and jurisdiction. What to expect when being inspected.
- ASTM 2174
- Different Methodologies
- Witness Tests
- Destructive Tests, post installation, measuring.
- Work with ASTM
- Work with serviceability group
- Task Group Chair for E3038, assessing the qualifications for fire stop inspectors.
- Global Fire Protection Group
- Third Party Inspections make up 10-15 percent of work
- Full Service Fire Protection Engineering Firm
- Fire Alarm design, Sprinkler design, code reviews, field consulting, building audits, risk management, etc.
- Licensed in all of US and most of Canada, worked in 20 different countries the past few years.
- Services
- Sprinkler flow testing, recalculation, piping
- Passive Fire Protection, Engineering judgement reviews
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