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Fire Performance and the Exterior Building Envelope
28 September 2009 08:29am
Fire performance is perhaps the most critical consideration when specifying building systems. A clear understanding of the combustibility of building products is paramount whether there is risk to life and potential stock losses or business interruption resulting from a major fire occurrence. ...
Eurobond Rising to the Challenge for Greggs Bakeries
27 February 2009 15:26pm
Eurobond has risen to the challenge and supplied both internal and external panel systems for Greggs Bakeries new production unit in Manchester. Set to produce more than 4 million doughnuts a year as well as other cakes, pastries and baked goods for Greggs’ North-West outlets, it is a vital addition...
Eurobond Supports BRE's Clarification of the LPS1181 Series of Standards for Fire Performance
11 July 2008 09:09am
Eurobond has welcomed the decision by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) to demystify the facts behind the LPS-1181 series of standards for fire performance....
Eurobond Supports the ABI’S Clarification of Fire Guidance
04 July 2008 00:00am
Eurobond today has welcomed the decision by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) to clarify a paragraph in its guidance document, Technical Briefing: Fire Performance of Sandwich Panel Systems – May 2003....
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New CPD on Fire Cuts through Confusion
02 July 2008 00:00am
Potentially misleading labelling of some composite panel systems as 'fire safe' has caused widespread confusion in the market. To set the record straight Eurobond has launched a new RIBA approved CPD seminar that focuses on the true fire performance of composite panel systems....
'FireSafe' - Fact or Fiction
30 May 2008 15:42pm
‘Firesafe’ is no doubt a term that many architects have heard of and one that many have come to associate with non-combustibility and composite panels. This is a dangerous misconception, the two are no more alike than global warming and carbon dioxide....
Are you Specifying the best when it comes to Fire Resistance
27 May 2008 15:51pm
“Specifiers are being increasingly directed towards composite panels with a non-combustible core”, says Richard Wigley, Marketing Manager for Eurobond....
Cladding Considerations
20 March 2008 14:36pm
Steel faced composite panels haven’t traditionally been a building system utilised by housing associations. However, modern day demands have seen a marked increase in the number of housing providers now turning to this method of construction. Richard Wigley, Marketing Manager for Eurobond Laminates, looks at the reasons why stone wool...
Keep on Top of Burning Issues
01 May 2007 12:00pm
Fire resistance has moved back up the construction industry’s agenda, particularly with the Regulatory Reform Fire Safety Order (RRFSO) coming into effect late last year. Richard Wigley, Marketing Manager, from Eurobond, explains the importance of these new regulations and why they will significantly influence end client specifications....
Hot Topic
22 September 2005 10:00am
The increased vulnerability of people inside a hospital building certainly heightens a building owner’s duty of care and, as such, a building’s resistance to fire is key. Eurobond looks to why specifiers are now being directed towards non-combustible cored products, when choosing composite panels....
