Fire Protection Curtain Wall

Fire rated curtain wall systems pass the same fire tests as solid walls and allow for unlimited areas of glazing in fire separations.

Fire protection curtain wall.

The casing and guide rails of the highly flexible systems blend almost invisibly into the building and allow plenty of. In larger structures several fire curtains are used which divide the building into fire compartments when there is a fire. Tgp s fire rated curtain wall systems are engineered to meet these stringent fire safety performance requirements and more making your designs stand out. Curtain wall and edge of slab fire barrier systems for single spandrel zero spandrel and steel back pan configurations hilti s vast library of firestop solutions ranging from traditional spandrel designs 100 vision glass or eifs are unrivaled in the industry.

Put simply a fire curtain is a specially constructed curtain that descends from the ceiling to block an opening and stop fire and smoke spreading between two areas. From the ground breaking firemaster concertina installed to protect staircases at the oil search offices in sydney to the no visible support nvs horizontal fire curtains employed to stop the fire from spreading between floors of arup s multi. 8 3 5 4 1 voids created between the fire resistance rated floor assembly and the exterior curtain wall shall be protected with a perimeter joint system that is designed and tested in accordance. For the integrity and insulation protection the vertical curtain wall facade also goes from 30mins to 120mins whilst the rooflight applications are for 30mins and 60mins.

Perimeter joint curtain wall test is performed in accordance with astm e2307 other labs testing per ul 2079 alone do not adequately capture the dynamics between a rated floor and a non rated curtain wall assembly the structural nature of curtain walls and fire attacking at two planes intermediate scale multi story test apparatus. Fire curtains deploy when triggered by a fire alarm or sensor. In case of fire fire protection curtains close wall and ceiling openings. Coopers fire curtains are bs and en certified and tested to ul standards.

Our fire resistant curtain wall systems go from 30 minutes up to 120 minutes for integrity only fire protection. The ultimate fire resistant glazing system. We conducted fire tests to evaluate and compare the connection protection concept to traditional fire protection materials.