, Session Block A4
8:30 Life Safety and Fire Prevention in Façades
Chair: Zomraude Chantal Chalouhi, Jensen Hughes, Milan, Italy
Designing and integrating fire safety in façades
- Challenges of a greenhouse in a double-skin façade
- Performance-based fire-safety design
- Life safety and fire prevention requirements
Design challenges in smoke and heat exhaust ventilation
- Smoke and heat exhaust ventilation systems
- Common problems concerning continuous façades
- Available solutions on the market
Fire safety of façades: How to be sure?
- The building envelope is cha(lle)nging
- Testing of materials
- Large scale compliance testing
Classification of façade structures regarding fire safety
- Fire standards for building products certification
- Façade systems' reaction to fire
- Second skin façades
Non-combustible vertical façade membranes
- Breathable membranes
- Applications for ventilated façades
- Photovoltaic applications
Saving lives through the application of non-combustible membranes
- Breather and vapour control systems of non-combustible membranes
- Sustainable results focusing on project needs and requirements
- Future-proofing your projects
10:00 Coffee Break