McLaggan, MS;
Hidalgo, JP;
Osorio, AF;
Heitzmann, MT;
Carrascal, J;
Lange, D;
Maluk, C;
(2021)
Towards a better understanding of fire performance assessment of façade systems: Current situation and a proposed new assessment framework.
Construction and Building Materials
, 300
, Article 124301. 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2021.124301.
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Abstract
This manuscript presents tools and data that serve to enable an evaluation of the risk associated with vertical fire spread on buildings. A highly detailed context to cladding fires is described to unveil the complexity and magnitude of the problem and to identify gaps of information. An engineering framework is then developed which delivers required information that fills some of those gaps and that needs to be used towards achieving quantified fire performance. The data itself has been published as a publicly available database, entitled the Cladding Materials Library (www.claddingmaterialslibrary.com.au). This data can be used to support building fire risk assessments or as the basis for more in-depth research into façade fires. This paper presents the context of the data together with the competency framework necessary for upskilling building professionals to have the capacity to implement the engineering framework.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Towards a better understanding of fire performance assessment of façade systems: Current situation and a proposed new assessment framework |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2021.124301 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2021.124301 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Fire safety engineering, Facades, Cladding, Fire risk, Remediation, Education, Risk assessment, Cladding materials library, Material database |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10133098 |
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