Masonry Magazine January 1975 Page. 56
Fire containment specialist.
Call on the brick and block wall specialist to give your buildings added fire protection.
Drywall elevator shafts and stairwells can collapse in a fire. Steel loses its load-carrying capacity when temperatures rise above 1000°F.
Glass and metal curtain-walls can shatter or melt.
Brick and block walls won't burn, melt, buckle or disintegrate, no matter how hot the fire. Good reasons for masonry stairwells, masonry protective compartments, and masonry firewalls on every floor of your building.
No one can prevent all fires from starting, but the bricklayer, working with brick and block, can keep them from spreading.
Brick and block. Some of the best fire protection your building can get.
IMI
International Masonry Institute
Suite 1001, 823 15th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005
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