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Specification Magazine September 2024

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External Walls

Ventilated aluminium wall cladding for data centres More and more companies are turning to external computing power for their business. Instead of in-house servers, they rent from data centres, large buildings with lots of servers. The computing capacity of the numerous servers results in a large amount of heat generation.

choice. Renson’s Linius system combines quality and aesthetics in a sustainable wall cladding system, around the outer shell of the data centre. With a RAL colour of your choice as the finishing touch.

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o protect the servers from overheating and maintaining the architectural integrity of the building, ventilated aluminium wall cladding is the perfect solution to finish of these critical buildings.

Prevent overheating No well-functioning data centre without enough air conditioning. To conceal the essential AC’s while ensuring a sufficient supply of fresh air to enable cooling, a louvred aluminium façade is a smart

Demountable façades are the future Server technology is evolving at lightning speed. When building data centres, companies are already thinking about how to replace servers quickly and efficiently in the short term. A fully demountable façade makes this complex process much faster, simpler and safer. From a deeprooted sense of innovation, Renson's CSI department develops and tests new Linius concepts to provide a ready-made answer to this challenge. Visit our website at renson.net Renson – Enquiry 29

AIM launches wall cavity barrier (RED EDITION) AIM Acoustic & Insulation Manufacturing has launched a ‘Red Edition’ of its Wall Cavity Barrier range.

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ew product features and investment means that the Wall Cavity Barrier (Red Edition) is approved for a wider scope of applications. Wall Cavity Barrier (Red Edition) also has IFC Third Party Certification. All Wall Cavity Barrier (Red Edition) products are tested in accordance with BS EN 13664: 2021, recognised throughout the UK and EU as an appropriate resistance to fire test standard for this type of product. The tests encompass the 10:1 ratio. High density foil faced stone wool barriers, AIM Wall Cavity Barrier (Red Edition) products are for use vertically and horizontally to provide a fully closed cavity fire barrier along compartmentation lines in the outer leaf of a building. They are available cut to size or in slab form for on-site cutting and manufactured in 75mm, 100mm and 125mm thicknesses.

Suitable for use in all masonry cavity walls, as well as for fire stopping between a masonry wall system and a concrete floor slab, Wall Cavity Barriers (Red Edition) prevent the passage of heat, flame and smoke within cavities for 30, 60 or 120 minutes. Third Party Certification now covers normal masonry to masonry use for cavities up to 400mm.

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The Wall Cavity Barrier (Red Edition) products are also now tested for use in cavities up to 600mm, an increased void scope, in SFS substrate construction and non-standard constructions, such as rainscreen cladding systems. ‘Red Edition’ WCB products can be identified by their red foil print. AIM – Enquiry 30

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