THEWHOLE IS MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS

摘要

Fire safety is a heavily regulated industry, demanding that any products being offered for fire protection purposes must be tested and certified to British or European Standards. Commonly specified to satisfy design vision as well as legislative requirements, fire glass is one of the most comple fire safety products on the market, bringing with it stringent testing parameters. However, in* the context of fire glass, it is not sufficient to test the glazing in isolation. To guarantee the integrity of glazing performance in application, best practice is to manage fire glass as a system spec iff cation. To facilitate this, fire glazln must, therefore, be test as a complete system. Simon Ellison, technical manager for Pyroguard at CGI International, addresses why it is not sufficient to view fire glazing as a single product, examining the dangers of specifying materials independently and highlighting the detailed areas for caution.