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both of those components must be considered together, not in isolation. Fire resisting construction discourages the use of combustible materials in cladding to minimize the spread of fire, together with insisting adequate fire barriers are employed within building cavities. The specific fire strategy for the building, will be set out by the fire engineer including the requirements for the façade cladding. The fire performance of the cladding and façade should form a key part of the early in the design process and fire strategy. Clearly the fire regulations specified here fall short of any requirement to state life saving requirements of fire spread by external cladding, cladding specification is entirely dependent on type of building construction combined with fire strategy dictated by the local fire officer, all is very ambiguous and clearly needs some serious changes to effect a fire resistant building, only apparent since the
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TN98 (supersedes previous technical note TN73) Guidance for the fire performance of facades (including cladding) and suggests that any buildings with compartmented floors will limit spread of fire, thus affecting the design of interface points where the compartment floors meet the façade. Therefore,
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TN 76 Impact performance of building envelopes: method for impact testing of cladding panels 2012
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TN98 Fire performance of facades - UK Building Regulations- (supersedes TN73) 2017.
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TN 75 Impact performance of building envelopes: guidance on specification 2012
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TN 66 Safety and fragility of glazed roofing: guidance on specification 2010
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TN 67 Safety and fragility of glazed roofing: testing and assessment 2010
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TN 71 Standards and performance classification of windows and doors 2011
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TN 53 Method statements for the construction of building envelopes 2009
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Guide to the selection and testing of stone panels for external use 1997
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TU 15 Replacement of British Structural design codes by Eurocodes 2011
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TN 97 Selection of access equipment for façade maintenance 2016 .
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TN 96 Assessing cradle and suspended access equipment loads 2016
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Performance and testing of fixings for thin stone cladding 1999
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TN 77 Assessment and certification of rainscreen systems 2012
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TN 8 Selection of windows - a checklist for specifiers 2000
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TN 39 Sound transmission through building envelopes 2003
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Windows with enhanced resistance to intrusion 1994
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Index

Advocacy group
Lobbying
Bath, Somerset
Building materials
Construction
cwct.co.uk
fire resistance
cladding
Bath, Somerset
Grenfell Tower fire
"Centre for Window and Cladding Technology"
"Centre for Window and Cladding Technology (CWCT) Home"
"TN98 Fire performance of facades - Guide to the requirements of UK Building Regulations"
"Where have cladding fire tests failed?"
"CWCT Documents"
Categories
Fire protection organizations
Organizations established in 1989
1989 establishments in the United Kingdom

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