Fire Safety

Kingspan's Commitment to Fire Safety and Performance

Kingspan is the world's largest manufacturer of insulated building products, offering a full spectrum of insulation cores from traditional mineral fibre to advanced technologies, providing solutions to meet all regulatory requirements.

Committed to delivering high-performance, innovative building solutions that are underpinned by extensive fire testing, including large-scale system testing, Kingspan has carried out almost 2,000 fire tests, to national, international and insurance industry standards, across its full range of insulated panel, rainscreen facade and insulation board products and systems.

As part of an ongoing commitment to fire safety and product development, Kingspan has invested in a state-of-the-art global facility dedicated to fire engineering research. Offering a comprehensive resource of fire science equipment and expertise, its mission is to advance knowledge and understanding of how building materials, products and complete systems perform when subjected to fire. Based in North Wales, the centre will be open to visitors and will welcome research partnerships and collaboration from across industry and academia.

Kingspan Fire Testing

Kingspan's high-performance PIR, QuadCore® and Kooltherm insulated building products undergo multiple tests to determine their fire performance. These tests fall into two key categories: reaction to fire and fire resistance, which align with the stages of fire development.

This video explains these core concepts and why high levels of performance across both of these elements is important for assessing fire safety in building products.

Understanding the Link Between Fire Development and Fire Performance

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Reaction to Fire

Reaction to fire is important during the early stages of a fire, determining how much energy a building product contributes to fire growth.

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Flashover

Once a fire has enough energy to sustain growth, a flashover can occur, turning a fire in a room to a room on fire. At this point, compartmentation is crucial.

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Fire Resistance

Once a fire has reached flashover and transitioned to a fully developed blaze it's important that building elements are able to resist and contain it.

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Fire Spread

It’s important to understand the burning behaviour of building materials and systems and to what extent, once exposed to fire, they will contribute to fire propagation.

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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 are proven not to propagate fire in numerous independently-investigated real fire case studies.

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