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A serious need has been raised to protect the building structural members from adverse effect of fire during a fire outbreak. Contemporarily fire protective coatings have been seen more prominently in use for their numerous advantages over conventional fire protecting barriers in passive fire protection systems. However, there have been frequent cases of defects, non-performance and eventually failure of coating prior to estimated design service life. Thus a need arises to efficiently plan for design intervention and execution stages of fire protective coating systems to enhance their performance and durability. This study aims to identify causes of defects and subsequent failures in coating system to frame mitigation measures in order to avoid the occurrence of failure by careful selection of fire protective coating based on its suitability with structural member and precautions taken prior to and during the application process of the coatings.