Fire Resistance of Wood Elements
It is usual to find in old buildings reconstrucctions beams or wooden pillars that still maintain their carrying capacity so it is necessary to …
It is usual to find in old buildings reconstrucctions beams or wooden pillars that still maintain their carrying capacity so it is necessary to …
This type of mixed concrete forged with profiled steel sheet began to be used in the United States in the mid-twentieth century and it is very com…
The new mortar Tecwool F is a product composed mainly with Rock Wool and White Cement but it also includes other additives. This product is des…
After the serious fire that hit a mall in northern Italy, we think it’s a good time to talk about fire protection in shopping malls. There a…
We have already talked in another post about the sealing of cable installations how to correctly seal the passage of a cable tray when passing fr…
The priority of a Smoke Evacuation and Temperature Control System in case fire is always to save lives, leaving the evacuation routes free of s…
In both building and industry, we often find linear gaps between different parameters of different length, width and depth. These joints come
The Tecbor Firewall Board is a rigid panel for fire protection composed by Magnesium Oxide, Silicates and other additives finished on both si…
We already know the thermal insulation and fireproof properties of Tecwool mortar but today we are going to tell you about an extra property. T…
On certain occasions, we have a vertical and dividing element which resistance to fire needs to be increased by one of its sides, either because …
In many industries and buildings, access to the roof is something that has not been adequately considered until it is required to perform maint…
We find in many occasions in industrial buildings that the only access and exit from the offices is located on an upper floor and it is made by meta…
A few days ago, the Grenfell Tower in London burned leaving a few dozen dead so far and hundreds of affected. The Grenfell Tower apparently did …
After last fire in buildings we have known recently, we would like to talk you about an improvement in buildings fire protection. Obviously, e…
The Technical Building Code establishes in the DB-SI, annex D, the Fire Resistance for Steel elements in buildings and also in the UNE ENV 133…
Mercortecresa wants to make people aware of the passive protection against fires importance, but we also want to inform about anything that a …
After many fires of nest type ships or groups of ships and the fast spread of the flames to the adjoining ships, it was necessary to limit as much as …
As we have seen this week, the number of fires due to the overhead of electric meters has increased so far this year compared to last year. Fires f…
We have seen many fires that spread easily due to the poor quality of the thermal insulation materials used. That is why Mercortecresa has crea…
In this post we make a reflection on how to carry out a correct support of the different “Fire belt barrier systems bands” accord…
The Tecwool 825 Mortar a high density mortar, is designed to withstand high demands on its behavior against fire scenarios that may occur in t…
After the fire in London in an industrial unit in the district of Tottenham, we want to tell you about the most effective passive protection s…
We are going to carry out a series of posts reviewing the different constructive solutions that we have tested, accompanying them in addition w…
One of the most common and used solutions of our catalog is the EI-120 Independent False Ceiling solution which main advantage is its lightness…
In this article we are going to talk about another of our most frequently used solutions, which is our Tecbor EI-120 fire proof partition wall.…
Regarding the partition EI-180 with Panel Tecbor we have two solutions tested according to the current test standard UNE EN 13.364-1: Fi…
Today we are gonna show you one of our most common solutions with Tecbor board, which is the ventilation or extraction ducts with 30 mm Tecbor boa…
The Los Alfaques disaster was a road accident and tanker explosion which occurred on 11 July 1978 in Alcanar, near Tarragona, in Spain. The tank…
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