Structural Steel Fire Protection

Nowadays, there are different solutions available for the fire protection of steel structures. The following three systems are prevailing: intumescent fire stopping paints, cladding with fire stopping boards and fire stopping sprays. A majority of steel structures use intumescent paints – approx. 70 %, while cladding with boards are used by approx. 25 % and fire stopping sprays by approx. 3 %, (data for Great Britain, Tata Steel, Steel Construction Fire Protection 2013).

In addition to the aforementioned systems, there are also some other systems, such as cladding with fire resistant sheets, the pouring of steel columns in concrete, partial pouring in concrete, the filling of columns with bricks made of foamed concrete and the pouring of beams halfway into the concrete ceiling.