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BENEFITS
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Perhaps the most important of all the
benefits of building your home with PolySteel is the safety
it provides your family. Exceptional resistance to tornados,
hurricanes, and earthquakes as well as unparalleled
fire protection, make a PolySteel home the safest place
for your family.
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Severe
Weather Protection |
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American PolySteel is the first
insulating concrete wall system to pass the rigors of a four-hour
fire test without the addition of any wall
coverings
required to assist in its performance. More
about this.
PolySteel's unique steel ties
hold the EPS foam together, further insulating the walls
and providing added protection on the side unexposed to
the flame.
PolySteel's extremely low toxicity,
smoke development, and flame spread, make
our walls safer from the hazards of fire.
The air tightness of PolySteel
structures also inhibits the oxygen needed to allow a
fire to spread rapidly.
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Hurricanes
PolySteel walls are 2 to 4 times
stronger than the maximum design wind load
required by the Uniform Building Code.
Tornados
PolySteel walls have been independently tested to withstand flying
debris driven by a 250 mph wind.
Earthquakes
PolySteel walls are 4 to 9 times
stronger than the maximum design earthquake load
required by the Uniform Building Code.
Floods
PolySteel walls minimize damage in the event
of a flood.
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"I know that under bad weather conditions, these children are in one of the safest buildings. Next to a bank vault, I cannot think of anywhere I would rather my child be during a tornado.
--The learning Center,
Ginger C. Hering
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