Knauf Insulation has launched Rocksilk RainScreen Cavity Systems, developed to simplify specification and guidance compliance in cladding and masonry facades. The programs consist of sheathing insulation, fixings, and cavity boundaries.
“The Constructing Protection Act locations a great deal more scrutiny on everybody operating on substantial-possibility structures,” stated Luke Davies, rock mineral wool product supervisor at Knauf Insulation. “The ‘gateways’ it introduces, plus the ever-stricter compliance conditions of the making regulations, indicate it’s under no circumstances been extra essential to get your specification ideal.
“That’s why we’ve introduced these methods: to make it much easier for specifiers to satisfy these complicated demands with a single process, backed up by demanding take a look at knowledge.”
The Rocksilk RainScreen Cavity Units merge existing Knauf Insulation rainscreen products and solutions with a collection of new cavity barrier alternatives. These include open up-point out cavity boundaries with an intumescent strip, a shut-state cavity barrier, and even more additions to the company’s impressive facial area-mounted masonry cavity barrier assortment launched very last year.
The comprehensive selection of cavity limitations allows specifiers to pick out the technique that greatest fulfills their fire effectiveness needs, assured it has been examined to the pertinent criteria. The Rocksilk assortment can be used with the main substrate varieties, which includes blockwork, steel, and timber.
The complete assortment of cavity obstacles is composed of:
- Rocksilk RainScreen FireStop Slab is a cavity barrier made from rock mineral wool, suitable for use as a vertical cavity barrier in properties with a ventilated cavity, and vertically and horizontally in buildings with masonry facades.
- Rocksilk RainScreen OSCB and OSCB Additionally are horizontal cavity obstacles made from rock mineral wool, shrink-wrapped with a reactive intumescent strip, for use in ventilated cavities up to 450mm.
- Rocksilk RainScreen FFCB is a patented cavity barrier built from rock mineral wool, that is developed to be confront-fixed to Rocksilk RainScreen Slab as the masonry facade is built. It is non-flamable with the finest-feasible Euroclass A1 reaction to fire classification and is produced applying Knauf’s one of a kind bio-primarily based binder, ECOSE technology. It is the only cavity barrier that can be mounted to the confront of the sheathing insulation without the need of needing to lower into it, which decreases waste, saves time and protects general performance.
Every single cavity barrier has been analyzed as aspect of a procedure with Rocksilk RainScreen Slab sheathing insulation to supply fireplace resistance in the ideal rainscreen facade apps.
Rocksilk RainScreen Slab sheathing insulation is non-flamable rock mineral wool and ideal for use in greater-possibility structures, and at any height. Rocksilk RainScreen Slab has Agrément Certification from the BBA for the broadest assortment of build-ups and the widest selection of thicknesses of any rainscreen solution on the current market.