We're dedicated to providing exceptional passive fire containment services critical to the construction industry. Firestop systems are a critical safeguard against the spread of heat, fire or smoke through breaches in floors and walls. Our expertise can help you select and install a firestop system to protect breaches made for penetrations and joints of fire-resistance-rated wall and horizontal assemblies.
Owners, architects, engineers, inspectors, and/or fire marshals are requiring certified companies and their employees to properly select and install firestop systems on their projects. This is where we can help.
We provide project specific or general pricing to install a complete firestop system as per the mandated codes and specifications.
The project will provide three new theatres, including a 561- seat proscenium/thrust Mainstage theatre, a multi-form 212-seat “transformational theatre” and a 102- seat black box space. The project will also house a sound stage and sound editing suites, scenery shop, prop shop, paint shop, costume shop, television studio, cinema edit labs, screening room, scenic design and general classrooms, rehearsal halls, acting studios, classrooms, and faculty offices as well as public amenities such as lobbies, public toilets, concessions, ticket/business office and performer support.
10-story southeast tower – an addition that will expand care by providing additional patient rooms and a dedicated space for the heart and vascular program.
The award-winning 109,000 square-foot building creates a new and vital teaching and research hub on campus. Its ambitious program includes an 11,000 square-foot class 10|100 research grade clean room for exploration at the nano scale, a new home for the Department of Biomedical Engineering, space for the University’s new Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, the new Disruptive Health Technologies Institute and the Engineering Research Accelerator.
United Firestop Technologies partnered with Continental Building Systems to provide the firestop services for the North Shore Place I and II project. North Shore Place I and II is comprised of two three-story buildings totaling 125,000 square feet of mixed-use restaurant and office space located directly between Heinz Field and PNC Park.
United Firestop Technologies partnered with W.G. Tomko to provide the firestop services on HVAC and Plumbing Systems for the WVU University Place Apartments. University Place offers modern, independent apartment living. This highly anticipated new student housing community will provide WVU sophomores, juniors, seniors, and graduate students an incomparable lifestyle of convenience, comfort, and fun – on the edge of campus in Sunnyside.
United Firestop Technologies worked with Limbach Company, Sargent Electric and Massaro to provide the firestop services for the Allegheny Health Network Wexford Medical Mall.
United Firestop Technologies provided the firestop services for the Best Western at Parkway Center Inn. The hotel features 138 rooms and suites as well as well as 8 meeting and banquet rooms for up to 200 people.
PJ Dick provided General Contracting services for a new residence hall on Duquesne University’s campus. The project consisted of a twelve story building that houses 400 upperclassmen and graduate students. The suite-style living quarters feature 1, 2 and 3-bedroom suites with semi-private bathrooms. The building also offers laundry facilities and lounges on each floor. The main and lower levels of the building hold offices for Ministry, Residence Life, Security and Housekeeping. A meeting room suite is located on the top floor. The facility is registered for LEED Gold certification.
233 apartment rentals with 420 beds in a combination of studio, one-bedroom, two bedroom and three bedroom apartments.
United Firestop provided firestop services for an 80,000 sf addition to Salk Hall located at the University of Pittsburgh. The new space will allow for multiple floors of pharmacy and dental research laboratory space as well as office and administration space.Spaces for mechanical, electrical and plumbing equipment will occur at the basement and fifth floors. Incoming services, fire pump room, tele-data room, electric and switchgear will be at the basement level. The project features a glass curtainwall facade facing the main campus. The building is being constructed on the tight, urban University of Pittsburgh’s main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA. The addition is located on the hillside between the exiting Salk Hall and the Fitzgerald Field House.
United Firestop provided firestop services for a new residence hall for first year students at the University of Pittsburgh. The new freshmen housing facility will accomodate approximately 500 students in the 200,000 sf building. The building, that is a total of 10-stories, also features a Wellness Center on the 2nd floor and a pharmacy on the 1st floor as well as fit-out space for future retail tenants. Each room houses 2-3 students with the floors sharing community bathrooms.
United Firestop provided the firestop services to the new addition to Camp Dawson of the West Virginia Army National Guard. Details to follow.
United Firestop was selected to provide firestop services to the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, for Building No. 29 at the University Drive site in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA. The new, approximately 198,000-square foot, 81-bed health facility provides both outpatient services and inpatient care. The $77.9 million project consists of six stories and one partial ground level and one partial basement level intended to link the West stair and elevators with the existing structure. The new Building No. 29 connects to the existing hospital on the West and South sides at the ground level through the second floor, and on the West side at the third through fifth floors. The project received LEED Silver certification through the USGBC.
Through our professional commitment to fire and life safety, United Firestop Technologies brings considerable value to our customers by enhancing public safety and property protection.
