Fire-resistant composite cladding opens endless options for designers

Approved per International Building Code (IBC) and featured in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, new Fireshield 285 enables large facades of almost any shape, contour and texture.  

Kreysler & Associates (American Canyon, Calif., USA) has created a new glass-fiber composite cladding material that solves the riddle of fire code compliance on high-rise structures. It turns designers loose to utilize the light weight and versatile plasticity of shape and texture afforded by reinforced composites using fiberglass and carbon fiber.

The new cladding composite, called Fireshield 285, will soon become the wavy, brilliant white, 10-story main facade of the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) expansion. The Fireshield 285 panel system recently passed one of the industry’s most stringent fire tests, NFPA 285, which involves a full-scale mockup of a multistory facade system that is burned and tested for flame spread characteristics.

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