FPAS-accredited Fire Safety Assessor support, passive fire asset registers, AS1851 audits and ongoing consulting — backed by a full in-house trades capability for the rectification work that follows.
FPAS-accredited Fire Safety Assessor support, passive fire asset registers, AS1851 audits and ongoing compliance consulting — the documentation and endorsement layer that sits over every passive fire system in your building.
Compliance, certification and auditing is what we lead with. East Coast Passive is FPAS accredited through the Fire Protection Association Australia, which means we hold the recognised Competent Fire Safety Practitioner credential required to act as a Fire Safety Assessor for the passive Essential Fire Safety Measures in NSW. We work as the long-term passive fire compliance partner for building owners, strata committees, managing agents, building managers, certifiers and head contractors across Sydney.
The asset register is the single source of truth for every passive fire item in your building — where it is, what tested system was used, who installed it, when, and what test evidence supports it. We produce comprehensive asset registers on every project we deliver, and we retrofit registers to existing buildings where documentation has been lost or was never produced.
Under Schedule 5 of the NSW Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2021, every building with Essential Fire Safety Measures must produce an Annual Fire Safety Statement confirming those measures have been assessed as capable of performing to their original standard. For passive fire items, that assessment must be made by an accredited Fire Safety Assessor. We carry out the pre-AFSS passive inspection, identify failed or missing items, rectify with tested systems, update the register, and provide the FPAS-accredited endorsement that lets the owner sign with confidence.
AS1851 sets out the routine service requirements for fire-protection systems. For passive fire that means scheduled inspection of fire-stopping, dampers, fire-rated seals, access panels and structural protection — looking for unapproved penetrations, disturbed seals, missing damper links, breached compartmentation and any change in service that has eroded the rated barrier since the last visit. We deliver AS1851 audits as one-off building-wide assessments, as part of an ongoing service contract, or in the lead-up to AFSS.
For owners and managers navigating an AFSS failure, a fire engineer's report, a defect notice, or a strata special levy proposal, we provide independent advice on what's actually required to comply, what's reasonable scope, and what can be staged. For builders and certifiers we provide design-stage review of fire-stopping schedules and damper schedules so issues are caught before they become handover blockers.
Sealing services that pass through fire-rated walls and floors, using tested systems certified to AS 1530.4 and AS 4072.1.
Every building has services — pipes, cables, ducts, data — that cross fire-rated compartments. Each time one of those services pierces a wall or floor, it creates a potential path for fire and smoke. Fire stopping is the work of closing that path with a tested, certified system so the compartmentation is maintained for the required Fire Resistance Level (FRL).
East Coast Passive installs the full range of firestop systems to suit the wall or floor type, the services passing through, and the required FRL. Every selection is traceable to an AS 1530.4 test report we keep on file.
Supply, installation, rectification and inspection of fire dampers.
We install new dampers in accordance with the manufacturer's tested configuration and the FRL required by the wall or floor. On existing buildings we can inspect, test, and rectify damper installations that have failed or been disturbed by subsequent works. Every damper we install is recorded in the passive fire register with location, manufacturer, model, and test evidence.
Intumescent coatings, fire-rated board and spray-applied protection to achieve the required FRL on structural steel elements.
Supply and installation of fire-rated access panels and service hoppers that maintain compartmentation of fire resisting shafts while providing service access.
Services risers, ceiling voids, wall bulkheads and fire resisting shafts often need human or material access — but that access can't come at the cost of fire compartmentation. Fire-rated access panels provide a sealed, insulated, self-latching door that meets the FRL of the surrounding construction while remaining operable for maintenance access. Fire-rated hoppers serve a similar role on rubbish chutes, laundry chutes and other dedicated services to fire resisting shafts, maintaining the shaft's FRL while allowing directional flow.
Supply, install, inspect, repair and certify fire-rated door assemblies.
Fire doors are the moving part of a building's fire compartmentation — they have to deliver the same Fire Resistance Level as the surrounding wall while still functioning as a door for everyday use. They're governed by AS 1905.1, the Australian Standard for fire-resistant doorsets, and they're one of the most scrutinised passive items at AFSS inspection time.
East Coast Passive supplies, installs, inspects, repairs and certifies fire-rated doorsets — from single solid-core timber doors in residential apartments through to smoke and fire-rated stairwell doorsets in commercial buildings. Every doorset we install is delivered as a complete tested assembly: door leaf, frame, hardware, intumescent and smoke seals, signage and self-closing mechanism. We keep the test report on file and the doorset is tagged with its compliance plate so the next inspection has full traceability back to the certified system.
