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Solarspan's fire safety
performance.
The Division of Building
Construction and Engineering (North Ryde, Sydney) has conducted fire
safety tests on insulated panels manufactured by National Panels,
and polystyrene manufactured by Rmax, in accordance with Australian
Standard 1530.3/89. (The results are detailed in the table
below.)
Fire Retardant grade
polystyrene is utilised in all National Panels products. A
CSIRO report states: "... gases associated with
the burning of expanded polystyrene are no more toxic than those
associated with burning timber. The tests revealed that the
toxicity of EPS was decidedly lower than other building
products." Toxicity Considerations of Combustion
Products from Cellular Plastics. PR Nicholl and KG
Martin.
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