Silverwood publishes a guide to its solutions that meet fire regulations

Aiming to offer easy access to relevant and efficient solutions, the Fire Solutions Guide is designed to support specifiers in their architectural recommendations by designing buildings to delay and limit the spread of fire. The Fire Solutions offered by Silverwood are adapted to the requirements of establishments open to the public (ERP) and collective housing. Each project has its own solution!

Fire solutions: a major challenge in public buildings and collective housing

Attentive to the expectations of its market and regulatory and technical developments, Silverwood is constantly developing new products and new solutions. It is in this context and to meet the challenges of fire regulations that Silverwood now offers specific solutions (cladding and construction systems) adapted to the requirements for the facades of establishments open to the public (ERP) and collective housing.

For Manel Eon, Marketing & Innovation Director: “It became necessary to provide education and support our customers in their choices. Fire regulations are not easy to understand. It brings a collective response to enable prescribers and customers to find the appropriate solution. With the Fire Solutions guide, we provide a tailor-made response for each construction project. »

With this guide, Silverwood wishes to share an approach that is both technical and educational. Technical first, by grouping the product solutions and the technical diagrams associated with each solution, to facilitate understanding and allow you to project yourself into the architectural rendering. Then educational, taking the nature of the project as a starting point and supporting the decision-making process in a search for balance between regulatory requirements and efficient and economical product solutions.

Wood Fire solution 1

This first solution allows the use of a wide range of Silverwood wood cladding meeting the normative requirements and making it possible to apply the technical solutions of the reference sector guide (Guide "Wood Construction and Fire propagation through facades", version 3.1 of the 07-12-2020): 4 species, with or without finish, in solid or false slatted planks, with Euroclasses D-s2, d0 or C-S2,d0 classifications.

Wood Fire solution 2

This high-performance construction system offers an architectural and technical alternative, certified by the LEPIR 2 test. ).

Wood Fire solution 3

This constructive system was developed exclusively with Silverwood cladding in Larch, certified by the LEPIR 2 test. This solution makes it possible to limit the overhang of the deflectors and to overcome the device for closing the air gap.

This Fire Solutions guide is also an opportunity for Silverwood to enrich its cladding offer with 3 new profiles, Pulse, Eskis and Tempo, resolutely modern and specially designed to meet fire challenges. With its expertise, Silverwood truly provides education for prescribers, in a regulatory environment that has changed significantly in recent years.