Teclack-W® Intumescent Paint for steel structures
mcr tecresa® R&D Department has been developing for years a product that completes our catalogue of passive fire protection products. Ou…
mcr tecresa® R&D Department has been developing for years a product that completes our catalogue of passive fire protection products. Ou…
Fire-resistant partition walls are of vital importance in the event of a fire. They prevent the fire from spreading to other areas or fire secto…
mcr tecresa® R+D department, has developed a new fireproof mortar called Tecplaster®. This mortar has a great hardness and rigidity, which ma…
There is a generalized idea about the great fire resistance of reinforced concrete. This only occurs on high thickness elements and dense re…
Generally invisible, it is silent and has no alarm, and cannot put out a fire. Nevertheless, it ensures that many lives and many buildings are be…
It is very common, during renovations or new constructions, to find this type of slab. It has the great advantage of letting more light in, betwe…
As seen in the previous post, the resistance to fire is not a unique concept, but depends on the use given to the construction material we are deal…
The Fire Resistance of a construction material is defined by several independant components that can be used individually or together, depen…
To extinguish a fire, we first need to know the different mechanisms that could have started it. Only then, can we find the most effective way to e…
Steel used in construction needs to be protected against a possible fire. At a temperature close to 500 º C it loses its mechanical capacity and b…
To conclude with these Post regarding sectorization, we will discuss about Fire Resistant Ducts. As mentioned in the CTE’s DB-SI secti…
In this Post we will discuss a common problem. In many places we face protected spaces that require a sectorization, and simultaneously, they n…
According to the Technical Code of the Building in its section DB-SI, we must sectionalise plastic pipes when they cross a fire area and their …
Either because there are long-distance evacuation routes or too many people, Fire Protection regulation obliges, in certain circumstances…
When we carry out a fire sectorization or a fire-resistant division, sometimes we do not need it to be resistant in both directions. This happen…
Tecwool®F and Tecwool® T mortars require a pneumatic spraying machine that applies the dry product by means of a hose blower to the spraying noz…
Today we want to talk about the non-bearing False Ceilings. These kind of solutions are usually used to provide an existing roof, which has an u…
This type of mixed concrete forged with profiled steel sheet began to be used in the United States in the mid-twentieth century and it is very com…
The new mortar Tecwool F is a product composed mainly with Rock Wool and White Cement but it also includes other additives. This product is des…
We have already talked in another post about the sealing of cable installations how to correctly seal the passage of a cable tray when passing fr…
We already know the thermal insulation and fireproof properties of Tecwool mortar but today we are going to tell you about an extra property. T…
We have seen many fires that spread easily due to the poor quality of the thermal insulation materials used. That is why Mercortecresa has crea…
In this article we are going to talk about another of our most frequently used solutions, which is our Tecbor EI-120 fire proof partition wall.…
