Metal panels can replace a variety of other building materials, including wood, concrete, brick, or rock. Metal is often cheaper in price, has better fire-resistance, does not mold or rot, and may have a longer lifespan than many of these materials. Here are four different ways that metal panels...
Factory Mutual Laboratories, also called FM Approvals, is an international company that offers third-party testing and certification services. FM Approvals tests products and services that are designed to decrease loss within commercial and industrial buildings in the event something unexpected...
Topics: Insulated Metal Panels
Building approval for insulated metal panels falls into multiple categories. Here's a little more information about the most common approvals:
Topics: Product Testing, Insulated Metal Panels
Insulated Metal Panels, commonly referred to as IMPs, are becoming more and more prominent in today’s construction market. In the most basic terms, IMPs are comprised of rigid insulation sandwiched in between metal skins. A more technical and widely accepted definition would state that IMPs are...
Topics: Cold Storage, Insulated Metal Panels
IMPs
Insulated metal panels (IMPs) are premier building products on the leading edge of innovation. The most commonly and widely utilized IMPs are formed by a continuously poured-in-place manufacturing process which binds interior and exterior steel facings to a polyisocyanurate foam core. They...
Topics: Insulated Metal Panels
