Thanks for your guidance so far.
We've already been on to our fire assessors but with the same old story of covid with people having to isolate act and being panic holiday season they are having to manage their work load and this sort of stuff gets pushed down the line.
Also trying to get information out of the landlord about the construction of the building is like trying to get blood out of a stone.
I've spend ages so far going through B regs and with you help I believe the wall between the storage and office area will be constructed as a Compartment wall the idea for simplicity was to build the compartmentation between and under the steel supports.
As I've been going through the regs is says a single story building is exempt from fire protection of structural columns unless its supporting a compartmented area which this does with the office area above, so is there any way I can tell if the structural steel in the photo provided is suitably fire protected with fire protetive paints? This is what I've asked the landlord for, or is I a matter of getting it tested?
Alternatively the option would be to extend the fire rated plaster board wall in front of the steel columns but this only complicates the installation and design as It would need to protect the horizontal as well as the vertical columns
any further guidance would be appreciated
Thanks
Chris