Specify firestopping you can defend. An in-person CPD presentation on firestopping best practice and the latest regulations, taught by the people who install and evidence the work. For specifiers, architects, main contractors and building safety managers.
Specifying firestopping means carrying the handover, the audit and the insurer’s questions. The work should hold in a fire and hold up in an audit.
Delivered by Skyline’s BM TRADA Q-Mark-certified installer team. Tell us who’s attending and what they need to walk away able to do; we shape the session accordingly.
Our guides and explainers on firestopping and the regulations around it are free to read: useful alongside the course and open to use on your own schemes.
Published by Skyline Firestopping, a BM TRADA Q-Mark certified installerRead it any time at skylinefirestopping.com/resources. No separate booking is needed.
How many CPD formats are there? Two, each bookable on its own. Structured CPD training for your team, taught in person: firestopping best practice and the latest regulations, from the people who install and evidence the work. CPD presentation examples: a lunchtime session on compartmentation and the golden thread for a design team, and a site toolbox talk on sealing penetrations correctly for the installers on site.
Delivered by a BM TRADA Q-Mark certified installer teamRequest a session →Firestopping is the work hidden behind the wall, and it is easy to leave undefended. A certificate alone does not document how each seal was installed and evidenced.
When a regulator or insurer asks your team to prove it, that gap becomes your problem: a stalled handover, a delayed sign-off, and a liability that follows the building for years. Training closes it before it costs you.
What would be your one to three best pieces of advice to do with fire stopping? Always check and check again. So, for example, if you're installing something or you've seen something that's been installed, always check that it is installed as per the manufacturer's guidelines because that's how it's tested.
The second piece of advice is really, really stupid. Don't prop fire doors open with fire extinguishers. I see it all the time. If it's a fire door, it's supposed to be closed. If it's open, it's not a fire door anymore, it's just a massive opening.
My number three piece of advice, which I've mentioned before, is just don't assume you know what the correct thing is here, what the correct thing is there. Always double check whether that's with a governing body or the manufacturer. Always double check. It's always worth doing.
Don’t assume you know what the correct thing is here, what the correct thing is there. Always double check whether that’s with a governing body or the manufacturer.
Skyline’s founder. He teaches from live firestopping work, tested systems and recorded site evidence, not slides.
We install and evidence tested systems from established manufacturers. The technical detail behind every session comes from products specified on real buildings, not a generic slide deck.
One intrusive survey at a fixed price for managing agents: concealed voids opened, every breach photographed and priced to fix.
Tested systems, installed exactly as tested. Every seal is photographed and captured in the golden thread.
Guides and explainers on firestopping and the regulations around it, free to read and use.
Firestopping training — sometimes booked as a firestopping course — is practical instruction that teaches construction and building-safety teams what defensible fire protection looks like, how it must be installed and evidenced, and how to spot work that will not survive scrutiny. It doubles as building safety act training: firestopping, compartmentation and the golden thread, covered in the same session.
Skyline delivers two in-person formats. Its CPD presentations are for architects, specifiers and project teams; the shorter site toolbox talk is for the people doing the work on site. The presentation covers specification and the regulations; the toolbox talk covers what the crew must get right at the opening. Either can be requested on its own, both are taught live in the room rather than as a webinar, and both count towards continuing education. The subject is passive fire protection either way.
Skyline is a firestopping contractor first, so everything it publishes on firestopping comes from live site work, not theory: the guides on Fire-Resistant Materials & Ratings and How Fire & Smoke Spread, the explainers, and the wider library of Resources, all free to use. Skyline runs these sessions because a client who understands defensible firestopping specifies better work and has fewer problems at handover. Where a session raises questions about your own building, the usual next step is the Intrusion Survey, which identifies breaches floor by floor. It is optional; the training stands on its own.
It is for the people who design, specify and sign off the work behind the wall: architects, principal designers, project directors, building safety managers and the site teams doing the work. You do not need a technical background to attend.
Skyline teaches the CPD presentation in person, on your site or in your office, across Greater London and the M4 corridor. Booking is simple: tell us who the audience is and what you want them to walk away able to do, and we shape the session around that. Where a session leads to work on your building, the same team that teaches it does the work.
Sessions are delivered as continuing professional development (CPD) by Skyline, a BM TRADA Q-Mark certified contractor, led by the practitioners who install and evidence firestopping every day, not third-party trainers reading from slides. The content comes from real installs on landmark projects including The Gherkin, Olympic Park and Grosvenor Square, not generic theory, so what your team learns matches what they will actually meet on site.
Practical CPD sessions taught in person, shaped around your team, by a BM TRADA Q-Mark certified contractor.