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News Release from: Fendor | Subject: Fire doors
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 January 2008
Fendor case study: Fire doors in
Antarctica
Fendor order from Morrison Falkland to provide 60 minute integrity only fire doors to new Halley VI Research Centre on the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
Hugh Broughton Architects, working with Faber Maunsell, won an international competition to design the Halley VI Research Station in Antarctica The new station will provide a home and work place for 16 people during the winter and 52 in the summer As fire is an ever present hazard in the Antarctic where humidity is very low, Hugh Broughton Architects specified Fendor SwingLine non rebated door system, along with Fendor 60/0 Pyrolithic glass to provide doors that help create fire compartments between the Research Centre pods
Although work on this project is being carried out now, Halley VI Research Centre will not be fully operational until 2010.
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