Are the STEADFAST Walls fire resistant?
Concrete can not be set on fire like other materials such as Timber. As a non-combustible material, it does not emit toxic fumes, produce smoke, or drip molten particles when exposed to fire, unlike plastics or metals. Also, concrete does not add to the fire load in a building. For these reasons, concrete is readily accepted in building codes as having a high degree of fire resistance. In many applications concrete is virtually fireproof.  

Are concrete walls as safe as timber frame walls in an earthquake?
Absolutely yes, and even more so; the STEAFAST reinforced concrete walls are a composite system: Concrete resists compression forces, and reinforcing steel resists tensile forces produced by an earthquake

The STEAFAST flat concrete walls are cast around steel reinforcing bars, locking them into place. The exceptional ductility of the steel to resist tensile forces, coupled with the rock-like ability of concrete to resist compression, results in an excellent combination of the three most important earthquake resistance properties: stiffness, strength, and ductility. A study at Construction Technology Laboratories revealed that even a lightly reinforced concrete shear wall has over six times the racking load resistance as Timber framed wall construction.

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