Fire Safety of Facades
The Article Series on Rainscreen Facades
introducing the FREN Concept 2024
introducing the FREN Concept 2024
This series of articles explains how global high esteem states remain fouled for decades. High-rise rainscreen designs fail. We introduce corrective redesigns of facades, new or existing, for the safety of people.
The impressive Grenfell Tower Inquiry stops short of revealing what objectives for safety of people must govern external wall designs. They recommend doing it. We did it. Check our articles on the level of safety and the options to achieve it.
Current regulations require redesigning existing buildings to avoid catastrophe recurring. Our articles explain why their upgrading’ fails and risk remains as is.
Some conventional facades perform well. Our articles show how a novel open-source concept can meet objectives for the safety of people by designs to fit slightly updated functional based codes. Proof of concept design shows how safety can be feasible, robust, inexpensive and provide hours to evacuate.
More Articles on Facades and Fire
Soon to be published:
- A Novel Fire Safety Concept to Fulfill Recommendations by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Final Report 2024
- Full Scale Fire Tests of Facades - The Lost Rationale (“Who Wrote the Code”)
- A Novel Fire Safety Concept to Fulfill Recommendations from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Final Report
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