Wall Types and Fire Ratings

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When we get there, there's this whole life safety plan where you figure out distances and what's required for people to be able to have access to egress, that's how they get out of the building in an emergency, so the code dictates all of that in terms of wall assemblies or how your wall is put together, what the wall construction is made up of. Is it a steel stud, is it a wood stub, is it two layers of gypsum wallboard, is it one layer, is there insulation, is there a resilient channel? There are myriads of solutions and of ways to assemble a wall and the life safety, the building code, is what will determine how much of a rating your walls need.

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