USG Boral offers a wide range of lightweight, fire-rated building solutions that are based on UL assemblies. These include fire-rated walls and ceilings, fire tunnels and fire protected columns and beams.
Acoustic considerations play an important role in creating educational environments for students. Such considerations include sound isolation for privacy or comfort enhancement as well as sound absorption in noisy areas. To learn more about recommended acoustic ratings for educational buildings refer to USG Acoustical Catalogue.
USG Boral offers an extensive range of lightweight wall and ceiling systems providing various levels of sound isolation. USG Boral also offers a range of sound absorbing wall and ceiling linings including Echostop® perforated plasterboard with NRC ratings up to 0.80, and a wide range of acoustic ceiling tiles with NRC up to 0.95.
Impact Resistance
Impact damage to internal wall surfaces is a major contributor to the high maintenance costs of educational buildings. Whether they are located in corridors, classrooms or sports halls, walls are often subject to damage; far in excess of normal wear and tear.Therefore, they require the use of impact resistant lining materials. USG Boral offers a range of lining products offering various levels of impact resistance.
USG Sheetrock AR plasterboards has been specifically designed for use in high traffic areas such as corridors. Fiberock® Aqua-Tough is a paperless gypsum board with cellulose fibre reinforcement that is also effective against hard body and glancing impact.
Sustainable design is an integral requirement of many government and non-government projects. Government authorities and leading developers now commonly go beyond the minimum energy efficiency requirements stipulated in various national and international construction and building codes.. The use of USG Boral ceiling tiles and drywall systems produced locally in the GCC can contribute to the environmental performance and gain LEED points for projects targeting LEED.
