Fire-Retardant Concrete, Winston-Salem, NC

Improve the safety of your building with fire-retardant concrete.

Fires are a big threat to the safety and structure of multi-family buildings. If a fire starts in one building, it can spread rapidly, threatening the safety of many people who live in the building. For this reason, many commercial builders today look for materials to use when constructing multi-family buildings that are fire resistant, including fire-retardant concrete and gypsum underlayment like gypsum-based drywall products The makeup of gypsum concrete makes it an ideal fire barrier, increasing the time it takes for the temperature to rise on the floors above. Gypsum locks water into its structure in a solid, crystalized form. When exposed to tremendous heat, the water will change its state from a solid to a liquid and then to a gas, absorbing a large amount of energy in each state change. This is what makes gypsum so common in fire-retardant products.

Gypcrete is a type of fire-retardant concrete that provides a one- to two-hour fire barrier when used in a proper floor/ceiling assembly and aligns with current building codes for larger buildings. If a fire does happen in a multi-family building, this fire-retardant concrete will slow the fire’s progress throughout the building. This gives residents more time to escape and also minimizes overall damage to the building while firefighting efforts take place.