TBA Firefly? Intubatt? Concrete Protection DTS Tested Systems for FRL240/240/240 Patent Pending

DTS System FRL240/240/240 Tested in accordance with AS1530.4-2014 & Assessed in accordance with AS4072.1-2005 Warringtonfire Report No: FAS210074 RIR

This is a Report from an Accredited Testing Laboratory which meets Specification A2.3 Section 2 (c) of NCC2016 Amendment 1 (Including Prior Versions) & Schedule 5 Section 2 (c) of NCC2019 (Including Amendment 1) for determination of an FRL.

Current Potential Issues for some building stock in Australia:

·????????Concrete Flat Slab is less than 200mm thick

·????????Alternate Solution (FES) which states that the concrete slab achieves an FRP90/90/90 or FRP120/120/120 when determined in accordance with AS3600

I believe that this may be a serious non-compliance issue, due to the fact that Table 5.5.2(A) is sometimes overlooked in some Fire Engineered Solutions. This means that an FRP90/90/90 or FRP120/120/120 cannot be determined in accordance with AS3600 if the floor slab is less than 200mm thick. Therefore the only route to compliance is via a DTS Tested System FRL.

Retrofit Solution:

Install one layer of TBA Firefly? Intubatt? to the underside of the slab to achieve a DTS FRL240/240/240

The same applies for where the slab may be 200mm thick and designed for a building which originally only required an FRP90/90/90 or FRP120/120/120 or FRL90/90/90 or FRL120/120/120 which has since had a change of use and the FRP or FRL needs to be higher.

For Retrofit & New Build:

Benefits of the TBA Firefly? Intubatt?/Concrete Slab DTS Tested System:

·????????Equivalent concrete thickness (ε) for concrete slab. One layer of 50mm thick TBA Firefly? Intubatt? is equivalent to 144.9mm thick of concrete @ 4hours.

·????????100mm thick of concrete is approximately 240kg/m2. (144.9mm thick = 347.76kg/m2)

·????????1 layer of 50mm thick TBA Firefly? Intubatt? is approximately 9kg/m2.

·????????Potential weight reduction of 338kg/m2

·????????The structural steel/concrete vertical support between each floor level won’t have to be as strong as they have less of a load to carry

·????????Using 100mm thick concrete plus 50mm of TBA Firefly? Intubatt? (Total 150mm) the floors are 100mm thinner, meaning that a high-rise could be designed so that it ends up with an extra floor level than that of a building designed with 250mm thick concrete slab of the same height (our system gives an extra 1000mm per 10 levels, 4m per 40 levels etc..)

·????????Concrete Carbon Footprint Reduction: The manufacture of cement produces about 0.9 pounds of CO2 for every pound of cement. Since cement is only a fraction of the constituents in concrete, manufacturing a cubic yard of concrete (about 3900 lbs) is responsible for emitting about 400 lbs of CO2. (Source: The Portland Cement Association)

Test Image: 2400kgs point loaded on top of the test slab

Post Test: Being removed from the furnace after being subjected to over 4hrs of exposure.

If you’re a structural engineer, fire engineer, architect, designer, builder or building certifier/surveyor please feel free to contact our office to obtain a copy of:

Warringtonfire Compliance Report: FAS210074 RIR

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