Torero, JL;
(2021)
The building envelope: failing to understand complexity in tall building design.
In:
Rethinking Building Skins: Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories.
(pp. 341-357).
Elsevier
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Abstract
The London Grenfell Tower fire tragedy is an extreme example of a technological failure with important policy dimensions globally. This chapter looks at the role of the building envelope from the perspective of a fire safety strategy. It then uncovers the different parameters governing the fire performance of a building envelope and how they integrate with other functionality requirements. With this information, it analyzes the building envelope performance expected by the fire safety strategy and the means to demonstrate it. It is at this point that the realization that none of the existing methodologies provides the required information for a proper performance assessment emerges. The realization that the current approach to fire safety is lacking, when it relates to the building envelope, will have enormous and long-term social implications. The chapter finishes by showing that the only way forward is by challenging the current paradigm that does not see fire safety as a functionality requirement for the building envelope and instead treats it purely as a constraint. In the design of a building envelope, fire safety has to be seen as an element of a multifunctional design process.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | The building envelope: failing to understand complexity in tall building design |
| ISBN-13: | 9780128224915 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/B978-0-12-822477-9.00001-2 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822477-9.00001-2 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | 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 UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10156495 |
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