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Resistance, resistance, resistance…
against fire, earthquake…
The ability of buildings to withstand extreme situations
and thereby protect people and equipment from danger
is one of the basic requirements of the construction
industry today. For these borderline situations, buildings
are equipped with a number of subsystems serving for
early warning and facilitating safe evacuation. These
are, for example, automatic fire extinguishing systems,
emergency ventilation, evacuation and fire elevators,
but also evacuation radio, emergency and anti-panic
lighting, electric fire alarm and others. All these devices
need an electrical power supply for their function and
often also a communication link with other elements of
security systems. Therefore, it is imperative that even
in such situations the functionality of these electrical
distributions is maintained for as long as possible.
Fire resistance
The MERKUR 2 system repeatedly proves its quali-
ties in fire resistance tests. More than fifteen years of
testing and application experience in the realization
of routes with a fire resistance requirement translates
into a comprehensive set of solutions for fire resistant
routes, covering all common installation requirements
and providing a functional and efficient fire resistant
route solution.
The MERKUR2 system was tested with a large number
of types of fire-resistant cables from various cable com-
panies within the Czech and Slovak markets. When using
these types of cables, the so-called non-standard cable
route of the MERKUR2 system is functionally equivalent
and, at the same time, amore economically advantageous
solution compared to a route in a standard design.
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