Fire Doors
The life of a fire door is much more than just a simple open and shut matter of functionality and aesthetics.

All doors do much more than merely control the movement of traffic to, from and through the space they serve. At the very least, doors have a major and influential impact on building and energy usage, as well as the general sustainability policy of every structural space.

Nowadays, reflecting increased concern for sensible Green Building policies, doors have to perform much more efficiently than ever before. In their ordinary life span, fire doors must survive year after year of functional use. In most locations this can also mean extended periods of time of abuse and high wear and tear.

Doors generally and fire doors specifically have to be built tough and durable just to be able to survive intact and functional to the day they are called upon to deliver their stated fire door promise in an actual fire scenario.

Fortunately, for must of us, fire doors will never have to perform as fire doors.

Nevertheless, to be considered effective, functional fire doors generally must be able to sustain not only the published fire performance levels of the overall building but also provide same or better fire performance characteristics than the surrounding structural and building components in which the doors are sited.

For regulatory agencies, building owners and developers, planners, designers, architects and engineers, fire doors must be tested, tried and proven to recognised and prevalent fire and building code standards.

Some fire doors can be fabricated entirely of Promat fire resistant materials but most - for reasons of cost, aesthetics and promised performance benefits - use a combination of materials.