2017•Unpublished venueRequires access

Contribution of fire barriers in fire performance of ETICS façades with combustible materials

Marija Jelčić Rukavina, Milan Carević, Bojan Milovanović, Marina Bagarić, Ivana Banjad Pečur, Dubravka Bjegović

Abstract

In case of fire, application of combustible insulation materials in facade systems increases the risk of fire spread vertically across facade and to adjacent buildings. This paper gives an overview of a problem related to fire spread across facades and modes of its protection, which are, in accordance to regulatory requirements set in the Republic of Croatia, based on the application of fire barriers for buildings with height up to 22 m. Further on, to demonstrate effectiveness of fire barriers to delay the spread of fire, results of large scale fire testing performed on EPS based ETICS specimens with and without fire barriers are shown.

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Key concepts: Facade, Fire protection, Combustibility, Architectural engineering, Forensic engineering, Firefighting, Environmental science, Scale (ratio)