Fire Resistance
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BLOCK DOES NOT BURN
Photo above is a concrete block home, the only remaining building in the entire neighborhood (being sensitive to the current situation, this was taken from an older California fire).
The photo at left shows a metal stud wall only seconds into a fire test (Hose Stream). The short video clip can be viewed here. Metal studs are more fire retardant than wood studs so a wood stud wall would perform significantly worse than what the metal stud wall did in this video.
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The concrete block wall at left after the same Hose Stream fire test. The wall remained intact and completely structural. View the test here. Omni Block’s System 12 is fire-rated at 4 hours and the System 8 is fire-rated at 2.7 hours.
The actual test results for Omni Block walls is available at Fire Testing.