Kingspan and Fire Safety

This area is intended to inform you of our commitments, here in Great Britain, to fire safety in buildings and direct you to information about the fire performance and testing of our insulation board and insulated panels products and the systems within which they are used. It will also point you to helpful educational content and provide you with contacts for our dedicated technical teams. For information about the fire performance of a specific product, or system in which it is used, please visit the relevant product page.
 

Our Commitments to Supporting Fire Safety of Buildings

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We are committed to ensuring the highest standards of fire performance in our products through continuous R&D, extensive testing, rigorous production control, accurate product information underpinned by robust processes and technical support.

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We are committed to playing our part in implementing the recommendations of the Hackitt Review, with a particular focus on enabling the Golden Thread and supporting enhanced competency.

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We are committed to ongoing investment in large-scale and intermediate-scale system testing as we believe it is the appropriate way to assess fire performance of products. In addition, to publishing the reports of all our BS 8414 system tests (both pass and fail) containing our standard products.

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Installation of Kingspan Insulated Panels

Insulated Panel Systems

Kingspan LPCB and FM Approved insulated panels are subjected to rigorous insurance industry large-scale fire tests and associated ongoing audits. In addition, they can offer high levels of fire resistance and have demonstrated that they do not propagate fire in numerous independently-investigated real fire case studies.

Fire performance of Kingspan insulated panels
Installation of Kingspan Kooltherm Insulation Board

Insulation Boards

Kingspan insulation boards are tested to required reaction to fire test standards and application-specific system assemblies. These include full scale facade tests such as BS 8414, fire resistance tests to EN 1365-1 and roof assembly tests to TS 1187(t4). Furthermore, boards in our soffit and roofing ranges hold FM approvals.

Fire performance of Kingspan insulation boards

Kingspan and System Testing

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Kingspan is committed to ongoing investment in large-scale and intermediate-scale system testing as we believe it is the appropriate way to assess fire performance.

Learn more about our commitment to system testing.

Various products from our standard insulation, insulated panel and rainscreen facade ranges have met the requirements of BR 135 when tested to BS 8414 in specific system configurations. We publish all reports (both pass and fail).

Click here for more information, including specification details and downloadable classification reports. 
 

Education Resources

Register for one of the below CPDs to learn more about the fire performance of our insulated panel systems and the rigorous testing regimes that underpin them, or click through to our training area to access our library of fire testing explainer videos. 

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Reducing Risk with
Kingspan Insulated Panels

This is an on-demand webinar for property insurance and risk management professionals. Understand how Kingspan insurer-approved panels mitigate the risk of fire spread and impact on MFL.
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Fire Performance of
Insulated Panel Systems

This CPD covers the Euroclass system, the importance of large-scale system testing and insurance industry standards and the demonstrated performance of FM and LPCB approved Kingspan insulated panels in real fires.
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Fire Testing
Explainer Videos

Visit our library of educational vidoes covering a range of fire tests that our insulation and insulated panels are subjected to.
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Fire Safety Regulations

An overview of the recent amendments to Building Regulations in England, Scotland and Wales and how this affects the specification of cladding systems.

Find out what has changed

Please contact us if you have any questions
relating to the fire performance of our products

Mail

fireinfo@kingspan.com