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Firefighting - Insulating sandwich panels
Mind map: Firefighting - insulating sandwich panels
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Firefighting - Insulating sandwich panels
Uses
- Internally for chilled or subzero enviroments
- Hygiene solution
Design and construction
- Inner core of insulating material
- http://www.aviva.co.uk/risksolutions/help/faq/answer/1757/
- Expanded polystyrene
- Extruded polystyrene
- Polyurethane
- Polyisocyanurate
- Mineral fibre - less fire risk
- Covered in steel sheets
- Method of fixings
- Light weight hangers
- Inner core of insulating material
Problems for firefighting
- Hidden fire spread within panels
- Black toxic smoke
- Rapid fire spread to flshover
- Delamination of steel facing
- Collapse
Reducing the risks - Risk Assessment
- Seperating the risk from the panels
- Providing a fire-suppression system
- For the risk
- For the enclosure
- Provide non combustable cores
- Cooking areas, hot areas, bakeries,fire-breaks,fire stop panels
- Specify appropriate fixings
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- Mindmap covering the major areas of insulating sandwich panel considerations for firefighters
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- Firefighter0793
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