GypWall EXTREME, a lightweight, extreme impact-resistant partition for applications where the most onerous BS5234 Severe Duty rating does not provide sufficient performance assurance, will be shown by British Gypsum.
Designed to perform “beyond the most demanding impact and abrasion resistance criteria currently available”, the product has been developed in conjunction with specifiers and building managers in schools and hospitals, where kicking, glancing impact from trolleys, and scratch damage, are common causes of surface damage and lining penetration. Its launch follows development of a new series of BS5234-style tests by British Gypsum’s Building Test Centre at East Leake, which replicate these three key types of damage. Initial trials have already seen the standard metal stud partition adopted at a new Edinburgh mental health facility, and at a major school development in Newark, Nottinghamshire.
