Less is more: the intumescent coatings industry is sharpening up its act with a range of new initiatives to provide specifiers with reliable and consistent third party assessment of the performance of protected structural steelwork. Debbie Smith of BRE Fire and Security and Geoff Deakin of Warringtonfire explain

INTUMESCENT FIRE PROTECTION technology continues to develop at a pace, where new products offering greater performance with lower thicknesses emerge frequently into the market. This continuing trend of 'using less [...]