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

In case of fire, application of combustible insulation materials in façade systems increases the risk of fire spread vertically across façade and to adjacent buildings. This paper gives an overview of a problem related to fire spread across façades 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.

fire safety, facades, fire barriers, large-scale testing, ETICS systems

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