Mercor Tecresa: Passive Fire Protection Solutions for State-of-the-Art Healthcare Facilities
Fire Protection for State-of-the-art Healthcare Facilities.
As part of the development of the new “12 de Octubre” hospitalisa…
As part of the development of the new “12 de Octubre” hospitalisa…
In the construction industry, safety is of utmost importance. Passive fire protection plays a crucial role in building protection. Tecsel® i…
Last June 2023, and in our firm commitment to continue evolving and testing new products and solutions, mercor tecresa® carried out a test with …
mercor tecresa® R&D Department has been developing for years a product that completes our catalogue of passive fire protection products…
In this article, we will talk about a new international reference for the protection of metallic structures thanks to the Tecbor® panels that h…
Fire-resistant partition walls are of vital importance in the event of a fire. They prevent the fire from spreading to other areas or fire secto…
There is a generalized idea about the great fire resistance of reinforced concrete. This only occurs on high thickness elements and dense re…
Fixed or mobile smoke curtains are made of a textile looking like a thick and flexible plasticised canvas. There are two types of curtains, with …
It is very common, during renovations or new constructions, to find this type of slab. It has the great advantage of letting more light in, betwe…
When a ventilation duct goes through one or more fire sectors, the regulation is clear : it requires the installation of a shutter element at the …
In this article we look at the different systems that exist to control a smoke evacuation facility and analyze the convenience of each in each si…
The facade of our house is the most important part when it comes to thermal insulation, as it’s usually the one with the largest surface ar…
In Spain, fires in homes in 2018 accounted for a total of 123 deaths, although there is no official data for 2019 yet, everything indicates that t…
There are several types of ventilators for the elimination of smoke produced in case of fire, we have already spoken in previous posts about the …
There are several models of ventilators, a few weeks ago we talked about the LAM model, today we are going to show the characteristics and advant…
When it comes to legalizing an industrial installation, we still find in many cases, gutters made of corrugated iron. In some cases with a concr…
A ventilator is an element that is installed on the façade or roof and permits smoke evacuation via an automatic or manual opening in the event of …
Ventilated façades is a construction system composed of an inner layer, an insulation layer, an air chamber and an external watertight layer. …
The shaft for services might have a key role in the propagation of a fire through the different storeys of the building, therefore it is essentia…
To conclude with these Post regarding sectorization, we will discuss about Fire Resistant Ducts. As mentioned in the CTE’s DB-SI secti…
According to the Technical Code of the Building in its section DB-SI, we must sectionalise plastic pipes when they cross a fire area and their …
This week we will be talking about metallic pipes and how to carry out the right sectoring as they pass through different fire sectors.
Firstly, …
Today, we continue to dedicate our blog to the sealing in the service crossing. This time we focus the attention on the expansion joints and the s…
You will find in this post a small guide of the alternatives to carry out a correct sectorization to the fire. In particular, we will be focused on …
‘Terminal Zero. Ministry of Flight ‘, a new free fall simulation attraction located in Zaragoza (Spain), has chosen mercor tecr…
One of the most important updates of the TBC (Technical Building Code in Spain) was the one regarding the protection from noise. It restricts, i…
The concrete slabs with polystyrene arches have great advantages: a better thermal insulation, lightens the own weight of the slab, fast plac…
One of the most common uses of our fireproof Tecwool® F mortar, besides the fire protection of metal and concrete structures, is the protection …
At the point where a partition wall between buildings or industrial warehouses meets the roof, a 1-metre thick horizontal strip has to be fitte…
For some years, Mercor has manufactured a line of products totally complementary to our main activity: the fire dampers. We continue with the e…
The most common application of a fireproof mortar is the protection of metallic structure. In order to certify that the applied thickness comp…
Concrete structures can present different pathologies for different reasons: project errors, execution failures, low quality of the mater…
AlveolTec® is a rigid panel of only 7 cm of thickness, tongue-and-groove joint and hollow holes inside that allows us to make vertical sectoriz…
Either because there are long-distance evacuation routes or too many people, Fire Protection regulation obliges, in certain circumstances…
A very easy and effective way to achieve a continuous thermic and acoustic insulation without joints can be made by means of Tecwool® T mortar pn…
Tecwool®F and Tecwool® T mortars require a pneumatic spraying machine that applies the dry product by means of a hose blower to the spraying noz…
In order to complete the passive fire protection catalogue and to offer our clients and distributors all sorts of fire-resistant materials, m…
To avoid total propagation of fire inside a building, a correct partition must be made in compliance with the standard in order to get fire secti…
We often refurbish buildings and stores with casting pillars of hollow section. This type of constructive element was very common at the begin…
On many occasions, when we have to do a higher than usual (3-4 m) vertical segmentation, we resort to the usual non-bearing fireproof partition…
Firefighters controlled a fire last night at the province of Sevilla The fire affected the company Recilec in Aznalcollar. The fire occurred b…
6. Plastic Pipes: this type of pipes disappears in the early stages of a fire leaving free space for the pass of smoke and flames. The usual metho…
The buildings with curtain wall facade are unique because that this element is normally composed of glass supported by a metal framework, whic…
Smoke and heat exhaust ventilation systems are natural or powered systems to remove smoke from a building allowing low level escape routes to b…
Regarding the Passive Protection and particularly the protection of the metallic structure, (steel loses half of its mechanical resistance …
A common solution for fire protection of metal structures is to coat the metal element using a Fire Panel such as our Tecbor Panel.
The Tecbor is …
They are composed of textile fiber which is impermeable to smoke and gases and at the same time resistant to high temperatures
According to thei…
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