Fire Resistance

Regarding fire resistance, AERCON AAC is a highly effective building material. It has a Class A fire rating, the highest rating available, and is classified as a non-combustible material.

When exposed to a fire, no toxic gases or vapors are emitted from AERCON products. AERCON AAC systems, such as interior and exterior walls and floor and roof panels, provide tremendous fire-rated assemblies in all types of buildings. Single-family and multifamily; townhouses; commercial, public, and industrial buildings all benefit from the extraordinary fire ratings provided by AERCON AAC products

A unique property of AERCON AAC products is that it contains water in crystalline form, which acts as a heat sink, absorbing heat and changing into steam. AERCON’s porous structure allows this steam to escape without causing surface spalling.

The following sections describe the numerous and diverse systems which can be used in fire-rated applications to provide superb protection.

AERCON AAC systems can be constructed using blocks, panels, or a combination of products. Since these are solid elements with very simple connection details, the ease of construction helps to ensure a monolithic, highly fire-resistant assembly.

Fire Rated Wall Systems

Due to their exceptional performance when exposed to fire, AERCON products are the ideal solution for many superstructures and interior spaces that require a fire rating. Whether blocks or panels, AERCON can be used as fire separation walls between townhouses, condominiums, apartments, and other multifamily dwellings. AERCON is also appropriate for hotels, motels, dormitories, assisted-living facilities, hospitals, prisons, jails, detention centers, schools, movie theaters, exit corridors, shaft walls, and stairwell walls.

Industrial uses include electrical rooms, mechanical rooms, computer rooms, communications equipment rooms, flammable materials storage, document storage, warehouses, laundry rooms, boiler rooms, maintenance shops, emergency generator rooms, pro-duct ion control sprinkler control rooms, and incinerator rooms.

 AERCON products can be used as the primary load-resisting structural system in addition to being used as cladding to increase the fire rating of stud walls and to protect other materials, such as structural steel.

Load bearing or non-load bearing; interior or exterior; singles-tory or multi-story; if you have a fire hazard, AERCON can provide a system to contain it. Use AERCON to restrict a fire from spreading or to protect valuables from an external fire. When safety is an issue, AERCON takes the heat.