Fire Rating parameter for more Family categories

[Simon_Weel]

OOTB, Revit has a Fire Rating parameter for only a handful of Family categories. In real life, a lot more Families / objects need to be fire resistant, like for example Ceilings, Columns, Curtain Panels, Curtain Systems, Curtain Wall Mullions, Floors, Generic Models, Ramps, Roofs, Stairs, Structural Beam Systems, Structural Columns, Structural Foundations and Windows.

 It's easy enough to add a Project Parameter 'Fire Rating' to those categories, but when exporting to IFC, this will bite you.

So please give more Family Categories a Fire Rating parameter?

[Anonymous]

Fire Rating parameter should be instant not type!!!  

[Simon_Weel]

@Anonymous: I strongly disagree with you. In real life, building materials have a fire rating. You can't change that fire rating - it is what it is. So if you need a wall with a fire rating of 60 minutes, you create a wall in Revit with a fire rating of 60 minutes. And if you're smart, you add that fire rating to the name. If you need a same sort of wall without the fire rating, just create a duplicate without that fire rating. If you make this an instance parameter, you'll get in trouble with things like scheduling the amount of fire proof walls etc.

[codrinh]

Agree with Simon,

Could we have a response from Autodesk please?

Many thanks

[Joey_JM]

Yes we definitely need the Fire Rating available to more categories. Also it should definitely remain as a type parameter.

[anthony_iskandar]

@Simon_Weel What do you mean by "when exporting to IFC, this will bite you"?

If we use Shared Parameter instead of Project Parameter, will this "bite" happen too?

Note: Because I'm planning to build COBie for this Revit, which will need IFC exporting too.

[thomas4PGN9]

It's 2025 and yet this this has not been acted upon. Windows need a fire rating.