Marcello Hirschler summarises updates of façade requirements in the 2021 US IBC (International Building Code). He underlines that the NFPA 285 test in place since the 1980’s has shown to ensure fire safety, in that the US has had zero fatalities in cladding fires...
Agarwal et al. present large-scale fire test results on twelve different ACM (aluminium composite materials) and HPL (high-pressure laminate) cladding assemblies. They conclude that non-FR thermoplastic core ACM systems show accelerated flame spread within minutes,...
Yuen et al. summarise building cladding panel fire incidents, regulations and perspectives. Numbers of significant fires worldwide related to cladding are accelerating rapidly from only around ten per year in the early 2000’s to around one hundred in 2014, continuing...
a review paper on dermal exposure to flame retardants shows very little published science, citing data from only four studies (Frederiksen 2016, Abdallah 2016, Pawar 2017, Zheng 2017, Fatunsin 2020) and for only eight FRs (HBCD, TBBPA, TCEP, TCIPP, TDCPP, TPHP, EHDPP,...
pinfa’s webinar, with 140 participants confirms that EU Green Deal sustainability initiatives will strongly impact fire safety. Participants represented a wide range of industries, including chemicals, plastics, energy, transports, construction, as well as researchers...
