FIRE RATED GLASS IN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES

Hospitals and healthcare facilities are public spaces that must observe fire safety measures. Protecting these premises against fire is necessary because lives are on the line, especially since patients receiving medical care may have less mobility if evacuation becomes imminent. These factors should guide the healthcare sector in constructing hospital buildings and medical facilities using...

Healthcare Installations Fire Rated Glass in Healthcare Installations. Fire rated glass plays in important role in today’s healthcare occupancies. This is article shows fire rated glass installations in various healthcare facilities where codes require it. Today’s clear fire rated glazing products play a key role in providing patients and healthcare workers built-in or passive fire protection...

Transparent Lab Walls Enhance Collaboration, Sustainability and Safety Transparent lab walls enhance collaboration, sustainability and safety. College and universities are making solid walls transparent by using fire rated glass.  Transparent Lab Walls Enhance Collaboration, Sustainability, Safety Modern science is an intensely social activity. The response at colleges and universities is to renovate or build new science...

Transparency in Science and Medical Labs There is a trend toward increasing transparency in science and medical labs. Designers build with fire rated glass to increase space flexibility, build collaboration, and encourage team based research. Transparency in Collegiate Science and Medical Labs Stanford’s Clark Center built in the early 2000s to house the Bio-X program...

Replace Wired Glass in Healthcare Facilities Replace Wired Glass in Healthcare Facilities. This article describes why it makes sense to remove and replace wired glass which breaks easily with minimal human contact. The activity in healthcare facilities make injuries from wired glass more likely. It makes sense to replace wired glass in healthcare facilities. On...

Fire Rated Glazing in Healthcare Occupancies In hospitals, urgent care, long-term care and other healthcare facilities, immobile patients make complete evacuation in the case of a fire difficult or impossible. For this reason, containing fire through built-in or passive fire protection in tandem with active fire protection measures is crucial in health care occupancies. In...