Routes to Compliance: Fire Safety

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1 Insuation Sixth Issue September 2018 Routes to Compiance: Fire Safety FOR FAÇADES INCORPORATING KINGSPAN KOOLTHERM K15 RAINSCREEN BOARD ON BUILDINGS WITH A HABITABLE STOREY 18 M, OR GREATER, ABOVE GROUND LEVEL Low Energy Low Carbon Buidings

2 Contents Page Introduction 3 About this Document 3 Routes to Compiance 4 Approved Document B Voume 2 & Technica Handbooks Section 2 4 Buiding Contro Aiance (BCA) 5 Compiance Route for Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board 6 Step by step Guide to Compiance 6 Linear Route 6 Performance based Route 6 Fire Safety Engineering Route 6 Kingspan Insuation s Commitment 6 Other Design Considerations 7 Factors to Consider 7 Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board Benefits 7 Case Studies 8 Fitzroy Pace, Mixed use Deveopment, London 8 Notre Dame Cathoic Coege, Liverpoo 10 Barnsey Coege, Od Mi Lane Campus, South Yorkshire 12 The Fod, Mixed use Deveopment, Sidcup, Kent 14 Appendix A 16 Step by step Guide to Compiance 16 Appendix B 18 Exact System Test Data 18 2

3 Introduction About this Document Rainscreen and masonry façades are popuar buiding enveope specifications, particuary in high rise appications. They aow architectura freedom, whist providing suitabe protection against the eements. However, choosing the best route to compiance, with fire safety reguatory requirements in Great Britain, necessitates a cear understanding of the compexities and the common misconceptions that surround the use of insuation in these constructions. The route that best serves the purpose of the buiding and the needs of stakehoders, whist producing a we baanced resut, may not aways be the most obvious option. This technica buetin examines the use of insuation in the façades of buidings with a habitabe storey 18 metres, or greater, above ground eve. It aso advises on how to interpret the guidance given in Approved Document B Voume 2, Technica Handbooks Section 2 and Buiding Contro Aiance Technica Guidance Note 18, for meeting the fire safety requirements of the Buiding Reguations / Standards for externa fire spread. The Roya Veterinary Coege (RVC) Student Viage, Hertfordshire. 3

4 Routes to Compiance Approved Document B Voume 2 & Technica Handbooks Section 2 There are three routes to compiance with the fire safety requirements of the Buiding Reguations / Standards regarding the insuation in façades on buidings with a habitabe storey 18 metres, or greater, above ground eve. Linear Route Firsty, a inear route to compiance is offered by the technica guidance given in Approved Document B Voume 2: Fire Safety Buidings other than Dweinghouses (separate editions for Engand and Waes), and Technica Handbooks Section 2: Fire Domestic & Non domestic (Scotand). This route requires the insuation to be of imited combustibiity or better (Engand & Waes) or non combustibe (Scotand), which, in this context, is defined by being a materia that either is isted or has met the required performance criteria after having been subjected to specific sma scae fire tests. Unike in arge scae fire tests, testing is performed on the insuation in isoation from a other materias comprising the façade system. As such, materia performance determined via this route is not whoy representative of that for the compete system buid up. Notwithstanding the cassification of the insuation in terms of combustibiity, there are separate provisions for the externa surfaces of the façade system in reation to the buiding height, use and boundary. For instance, where the boundary of a buiding is no greater than one metre, the façade shoud be Cass 0 / Low Risk / Eurocass B s 3 d 2 or better, regardess of whether the insuation is of imited combustibiity or non combustibe. NB DCLG (now MHCLG) has advised that the core (fier) within an Auminium Composite Materia (ACM) is an insuation materia/product, insuation product, and/or fier materia as referred to in Paragraph 12.7 ( Insuation Materias/Products ) in Section 12 Construction of externa was of Approved Document B Voume 2: Fire Safety Buidings other than Dweinghouses 1 and therefore shoud be of imited combustibiity or better (Engand and Waes) or non combustibe (Scotand). NB Approved Document B Voume 1: Fire Safety Dweinghouses (separate editions for Engand and Waes) refers to Approved Document B Voume 2 for suppementary guidance in reation to unusua or very arge buidings i.e. those greater than 18 metres in height. Performance based Route Secondy, a performance based route is aso offered. The guidance requires that the compete façade buid up meets the acceptance criteria set out in BR 135 (Fire performance of externa therma insuation for was of mutistorey buidings), using arge scae test data from: BS : 2015+A1: 2017 (Fire performance of externa cadding systems. Test method for non oadbearing externa cadding systems appied to the masonry face of a buiding); or BS : 2015+A1: 2017 (Fire performance of externa cadding systems. Test method for non oadbearing externa cadding systems fixed to and supported by a structura stee frame). Fire Safety Engineering Route Thirdy, compiance with the functiona fire safety standards may aso be demonstrated by aternative means i.e. the adoption of a fire safety engineering approach. Based upon scientific principes from an integrated or a whoe buiding perspective, fire safety engineering not ony considers the performance of structures, systems, products and materias when exposed to fire, it aso incudes human behavioura aspects, fire prevention and active and passive fire protection measures e.g. effective means of egress and adequate measures for aarm, detection, contro and extinguishment. Furthermore, it can faciitate innovation in buiding design without compromising fire safety, particuary in some arge and compex buidings, as we as muti purpose buidings, where it may be the ony practica way to achieve a satisfactory eve of fire safety. If taking this advanced route to compiance, the guidance given in a number of supporting pubished documents can be foowed. However, Approved Document B Voume 2 (both Engand and Waes) refer directy to BS 7974: 2001 (Appication of fire safety engineering principes to the design of buidings. Code of practice), whie Technica Handbooks Section 2 refers directy to IFEG: 2005 (Internationa Fire Engineering Guideines). NB On September 10th 2018 a circuar etter was distributed, from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Loca Government, which informs buiding contro bodies about issues arising from assessments of externa wa cadding systems. Pending a decision foowing the consutations in Engand (Banning the use of combustibe materias in the externa was of high rise residentia buidings & Amendments to statutory guidance on assessments in ieu of test in Approved Document B) and any subsequent changes to Approved Document B, the use of assessments has been prohibited. Therefore, ony the inear route and the exact system test data route provide compiance in Engand. 1 dated 22 June

5 Buiding Contro Aiance (BCA) With the aim of addressing common misconceptions regarding the use of combustibe materias within the façade system of residentia buidings containing a storey 18 metres, or greater, above ground eve, industry group, BCA, operating in Engand and Waes, issued its Technica Guidance Note 18: Use of Combustibe Cadding Materias on Buidings Exceeding 18m in Height (Issue 1: June 2015). However, given the sheer number of possibe façade buid ups combined with increasingy eaborate and innovative materias, fire test data may not exist for every possibe buid up. In circumstances where such empirica data is absent, another option for demonstrating compiance is offered. Whist it reiterates the guidance given in Approved Document B Voume 2 (Engand) for the fire safety engineering route, it, however, expands in an advisory manner, upon the guidance given for the inear and performance based routes and in addition, categorises each method into Options. The guidance given for the inear route differs in that it expicity states that for the entire façade area, both above and beow 18 metres, a major eements comprising the façade system, incuding the interna ining board and the externa facing materia, shoud be of imited combustibiity. BCA Technica Guidance Note 18 advises that the preferred method of demonstrating compiance is to submit evidence to the Buiding Contro Body (BCB), showing that the compete proposed façade system has been assessed in accordance with the acceptance criteria (i.e. externa fire spread, interna fire spread and mechanica performance), set out in BR 135, using data from arge scae tests carried out by an independent United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) accredited testing body, to BS : 2015+A1: 2017 and BS : 2015+A1: Waters Mass Spectrometry Faciity, Wimsow. This option aows the submission of a desktop study report from a suitaby quaified fire speciaist, which states whether, in their professiona opinion, the acceptance criteria of BR 135 woud be met with the proposed system. It requires the report to be supported by the resuts of testing by a suitabe UKAS accredited testing body, and to specificay reference any tests that have been carried out on the products. Since it was first outined in the June 2014 edition of BCA Technica Guidance Note 18, this option has become a method of demonstrating compiance with private and oca authority Buiding Contro Bodies (BCBs), as we as structura warranty and insurance providers, uphoding the guidance contained within. Athough desktop studies sti remain a method of demonstrating compiance in Waes, at the time of writing the use of assessments has been prohibited in Engand. Therefore, ony the inear route and the exact system test data route route provide compiance in Engand. NB On September 10th 2018 a circuar etter was distributed, from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Loca Government, which informs buiding contro bodies about issues arising from assessments of externa wa cadding systems. Pending a decision foowing the consutations in Engand (Banning the use of combustibe materias in the externa was of high rise residentia buidings & Amendments to statutory guidance on assessments in ieu of test in Approved Document B) and any subsequent changes to Approved Document B, the use of assessments has been prohibited. Therefore, ony the inear route and the exact system test data route provide compiance in Engand. Kingswood Academy, Hu. 5

6 Compiance Routes for Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board is designed for use in façade systems with either a proprietary or non proprietary externa finish and in both masonry and stee frame system (SFS) constructions. Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board is idea for both new buid and refurbishment. Step by step Guide to Compiance To assist designers in identifying the most appropriate route to take for compiance with the fire safety requirements of the Buiding Reguations / Standards, when using Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board in the façades of buidings with a habitabe storey 18 metres, or greater, above ground eve, Kingspan Insuation has deveoped a step by step guide. The guide draws upon the guidance given in Approved Document B Voume 2, Technica Handbooks Section 2 and BCA Technica Guidance Note 18. It is important to note that firsty, there is no requirement to have to consider the routes in a particuar order and that secondy, it is possibe to adopt a hybrid approach to demonstrate compiance by combining, in whoe, or in part, different eements of each method. Furthermore, the specified construction may aready meet the requirements for a number of appications. As such, Kingspan Insuation recommends consuting the warranty provider, or other authorising body, in the first instance. Refer to Appendix A for detais of the step by step guide to compiance. Linear Route BCA Option 1 Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board cannot be cassified as non combustibe or of imited combustibiity, and so, the inear route to compiance is not open. Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board can however, be deemed compiant for use in the façades of buidings not exceeding 18 metres in height. Performance based Route BCA Option 2 Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board has been tested in differing thicknesses with a range of cadding materias to BS : 2002 / BS : 2015+A1: 2017 and BS : 2005 / BS : 2015+A1: 2017, in accordance with the performance criteria set out in BR 135. Refer to Appendix B for detais of the buid ups that have been successfuy tested. BCA Option 3 A cohort of quaified fire speciaists have carried out a arge number of project specific desktop studies assessing the suitabiity of Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board, in differing façade buid ups, for use in buidings with a habitabe storey 18 metres, or greater, above ground eve. Due to current reviews of reguations, the requirements for this option may change. 6 Coeg Cymunedo Y Dderwen Comprehensive Schoo, Bridgend. Fire Safety Engineering Route BCA Option 4 This route requires every factor of the design, construction, use and management of the buiding to be fuy considered. Whist it does not rey soey on the standaone fire performance of individua products, the data that is avaiabe for Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board can form an essentia part of the information that woud be needed if adopting this approach. Kingspan Insuation s Commitment Kingspan Insuation is committed to a continuing program of testing, both independenty and coaborativey, to increase the breadth of BS 8414 fire test data for Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board in common façade buid ups. The resuts of these tests wi aso provide vauabe additiona data to hep those engaged in desktop studies or fire safety engineering. Furthermore, Kingspan Insuation has a dedicated technica advisory service for those seeking assistance on projects where Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board is specified for use in high rise buidings. Kingspan Insuation wi endeavour to assist those seeking: practica guidance on how to satisfy the requirements of the fire safety engineer; coaboration on arge scae testing programs; or, for use in waes, evidence of performance e.g. officia reports and certification. Emai highrisetechnica@kingspan.com for further information.

7 Other Design Considerations Factors to Consider Irrespective of the chosen route to compiance, there are other fundamenta aspects of the buiding design that must be considered. For exampe, use of compartmentation to imit interna fire spread or the separation distance between buidings so as to imit the risk of fire spreading from one buiding to another. Whist the fire performance of the buiding enveope is a vita eement of good construction, it is just one of a number of factors that shoud infuence the façade insuation specification. Since the primary roe of the insuation is to conserve energy, therma performance must aso be a key consideration. Other considerations incude: BBA certification; LABC Registered Detai status; environmenta impact and responsibe sourcing; moisture resistance, air infitration and durabiity; insuant thickness and weight, thus associated oad impications; cost and Return on Investment (ROI); ease of instaation; avaiabiity and ogistics; and access to technica support from specification through instaation to maintenance. None of these eements shoud be regarded in isoation. They shoud be considered in the context of the buiding as a whoe its overa design, its intended use, and any associated risks or benefits arising from seected materias in situ. Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board Benefits Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board comprises a premium performance rigid thermoset fibre free phenoic insuation core faced on both sides with a ow emissivity composite foi. The core is manufactured with a bowing agent that has zero Ozone Depetion Potentia (ODP) and ow Goba Warming Potentia (GWP). Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board, produced at Kingspan Insuation s Pembridge, UK, manufacturing faciity offers the foowing benefits: thermay efficient a therma conductivity as ow as W/m K makes it the most thermay efficient insuation product commony used in façade systems; thin insuation the thinnest commony used rainscreen insuation product for any specific U vaue; BBA certified its use is covered by BBA certificate 14/5134; LABC Registered Detai certified as Registered Detai EWWS165, it is the first insuation board to achieve LABC Registered Detai status as a therma insuation ayer in a rainscreen cadding system; A+ Green Guide Rating an Ecoprofie, certified by BRE Certification to the 2008 BRE Environmenta Profies Methodoogy has been created for the product and BRE has assigned the boards a Green Guide Summary Rating of A+; BES 6001 certified certified Exceent to BES 6001 (Responsibe Sourcing of Construction Products); manufactured to the highest standards under a management system certified to ISO 9001: 2008 (Quaity management systems. Requirements), ISO 14001: 2004 (Environmenta Management Systems. Requirements with guidance for use), BS OHSAS 18001: 2007 (Occupationa Heath and Safety Management Systems. Requirements) and ISO 50001: 2011 (Energy Management Systems. Requirements with guidance for use); cosed ce structure resists moisture and water vapour ingress a probem which can be associated with open ce materias such as minera fibre and which can resut in reduced therma performance; unaffected by air infitration a probem that can be experienced with minera fibre and which can reduce therma performance; safe and easy to insta fibre free insuation core; and Kingswood Academy, Hu. 7 Return on Investment (ROI) up to 3900% when compared with common insuation soutions, its use in new commercia buidings can provide an ROI of 3900% on the additiona cost of the insuation by creating greater marketabe interna foor area, without compromising the designed buiding footprint, for detais go to

8 Case Studies Fitzroy Pace, Mixed use Deveopment, London A styish deveopment in the heart of London benefits from the exceent therma efficiency of products from the Kingspan Kootherm range. Fitzroy Pace has been constructed on the 3 acre site of the od Middesex Hospita. The origina site was competey fattened aside from the chape and sections of the origina Victorian façade. This gave deveopers, Exempar and Aviva Investors, a bank canvas on which to create the new mixed use estate. Sheppard Robson and Lifschutz Davidson Sandiands prepared the ambitious design which incudes 235 private apartments, 54 affordabe homes, two office buidings, restaurant and retai spaces. The estate, constructed by Sir Robert McApine, has been designed with a focus on detai and quaity which extends to the energy performance of the deveopment. The domestic eements of the site achieve an enhanced eve of energy efficiency when compared with the Buiding Reguations, whist the office bocks hod a BREEAM rating of Exceent. To meet these requirements, a fabric first approach was adopted and severa Kingspan Kootherm products were specified across the site. The façade of the new buidings combine brick, concrete and gass, drawing inspiration from the origina red brick hospita buidings and the white working buidings of the area north of Oxford Street. Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board was used to insuate the rainscreen eements of the façade whist Kingspan Kootherm K12 Framing Board was instaed between timber battens on masonry sections of the externa was. With therma conductivities as ow as W/m.K, the Kingspan Kootherm products heped the project to achieve exceent eves of therma performance. They aso heped to contribute towards the award of credits within the BREEAM assessments for the office sections of the deveopment. Kingspan Kootherm K12 Framing Board and Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board, manufactured at Kingspan Insuation s site in Pembridge, are both certified Exceent under BES 6001 and hod a highest possibe BRE Green Guide rating of A+. The existing façades aong Nassau Street and No. 10 Mortimer Street have been carefuy restored and a new mansard roof has been constructed for the buidings which sit behind them. Kingspan Kootherm K7 Pitched Roof Board was instaed as part of the new roof constructions, aowing them to achieve a U vaue of 0.13 W/m².K with a minima construction depth. 8

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10 Case Studies Notre Dame Cathoic Coege, Liverpoo Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board has been used to insuate an ambitious open pan schoo in Liverpoo, designed to provide engaging architecture on a imited budget. Designed by Sheppard Robson, Notre Dame Cathoic Coege uses an innovative mode, deveoped with Liverpoo City Counci, which combines a standardised cear span outer she with moduar interna spaces. These spaces can be deveoped to meet the specific needs and requirements of each schoo and can even be adapted over time. The interna area combines arge break out areas with muti storey education and study spaces incuding an amphitheatre, chape, and demountabe cassrooms. The schoo s outer she is cad in a pearescent meta façade and to maximise buiding fabric performance, Sheppard Robson specified over 3000 sq.m of Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board. Wi Griffiths from Cu & Griffiths Ltd. commented on the instaation: We were extremey peased to be abe to support the oca community as part of this specia project. The Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board is both ightweight and easy to cut to size onsite. This made the instaation process straightforward for our instaers. Now compete, Notre Dame Cathoic Coege compements the Great Homer Street regeneration scheme on the outskirts of Liverpoo city centre. To hep strengthen the oca economy, Wimott Dixon Construction ensured 70% of the project work force was sourced from the surrounding area. As part of this approach, the rainscreen cadding system and 60 mm Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board were instaed by oca SFS experts, Cu & Griffiths Ltd. 10

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12 Case Studies Barnsey Coege, Od Mi Lane Campus, South Yorkshire With its modern design and bright red façade, consisting of standing seam auminium and terracotta, the Od Mi Lane Campus of Barnsey Coege sets out a vibrant, energy efficient vision for the town, incorporating a number of high and premium performance Kingspan Insuation products. The campus has received a number of awards incuding Project of the Year at the 2011 CIOB Ceebrating Construction in South Yorkshire awards and a Highy Commended at the SCALA Civic Buiding of the Year Awards The site is centred around an eight storey main buiding and provides 18,405 sq.m of vocationa teaching space heping to support earning in a wide range of work ike environments. Onsite faciities incuding everything from state of the art training kitchens to radio, TV and sound recording studios. Jefferson Sheard aimed to maximise the energy efficiency within the budgetary constraints of the project by choosing buiding materias that were both ow maintenance and which offered exceent ife cyce costings. To hep achieve this they specified over 5,000 sq.m of Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board. The product was instaed by cadding contractors Chempas and Wetherby Buiding Systems, and deivered outstanding U vaues to severa areas of the campus incuding the eye catching façade of the fagship buiding. With its highest possibe BRE Green Guide rating of A+, the product aso contributed, both directy and indirecty to the award of a number of credits as part of the BREEAM assessment, heping the campus to achieve a rating of Very Good. To compete the buiding enveope Kingspan Thermaroof TR26 LPC/FM and Kingspan Styrozone N300 R were aso instaed as part of the roof and foor buid ups respectivey. 12

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14 Case Studies The Fod, Mixed use Deveopment, Sidcup, Kent A stunning 6,500 sq.m mixed use deveopment in Sidcup benefits from the outstanding therma performance provided by Kingspan Insuation s Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board. The Fod, created by award winning deveoper United House Deveopments, features an eye catching façade which combines smooth curves with weather and boi proof pywood panes with a copper god finish. It was designed through a coaboration between Studio Egret West and KDS Associates. The competed deveopment incudes a restaurant, office and shop aong with 69 private fats and a further 29 affordabe fats offered by Gaions Housing Association. To hep minimise heat oss, 70 mm Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board was specified behind the ventiated cadding system as part of the gistening façade. The LABC Registered Detai status hed by Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board for use as part of a rainscreen cadding system, heped to streamine the buiding contro checking and approvas process on the project, saving both time and cost. With the buiding standing at over 29 metres ta, fire safety was aso a key concern. Juan Aberts from KDS Associates commented: The site is situated next to the main rai station so it was reay important that it set a positive first impression for visitors. The Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board formed part of our high quaity approach and we knew we coud rey on the product to deiver both the therma and fire performance we required. In addition, its BRE Green Guide rating of A+ aso heped us to meet Code for Sustainabe Homes Leve 3. 14

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16 Appendix A Compiance Routes for Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board Step by step guide to compiance with the fire safety requirements of the Buiding Reguations / Standards when using Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board in the façades of buidings. This guide draws upon the guidance given in Approved Document B Voume 2, Technica Handbooks Section 2 and BCA Technica Guidance Note 18. In accordance with Approved Document B Voume 2, Technica Handbooks Section 2 and BCA Technica Guidance Note 18 Option 1. For buidings with a habitabe storey 18 m above ground eve, the insuant must be of imited combustibiity (Engand & Waes), non combustibe (Scotand), or if foowing BCA guidance, of imited combustibiity in conjunction with the interna ining board and externa cadding materias (Engand & Waes). In accordance with Approved Document B Voume 2, Technica Handbooks Section 2 and BCA Technica Guidance Note 18 Option 2. The assessment uses arge scae fire test data demonstrating the performance of the compete façade assemby. BCA Technica Guidance Note 18 requires testing to be carried out by an independent UKAS accredited testing body. In accordance with BCA Technica Guidance Note 18 Option 3. Requires sufficient, accurate and detaied information from the outset incuding, but not imited to: façade buid up and fire test data for each component; design pans; fire stop / barrier configuration; materia specification, performance data and reevant certification. NB: this route is currenty under review and requirements may change. Pease check with warranty provider and buiding contro. LINEAR ROUTE PERFORMANCE BASED ROUTE BCA OPTION 1 SOLE MATERIAL PERFORMANCE BCA OPTION 2 EXACT SYSTEM TEST DATA BCA OPTION 3 DESKTOP STUDY REPORT Does the buiding have a habitabe storey 18 metres, or greater, above ground eve? YES NO Has the the proposed NO façade system buid up Refer to Appendix B. Does the proposed façade system buid up match one that has been successfuy tested to BS : 2002 / BS : 2015+A1: 2017 or BS : 2005 / BS : 2015+A1: 2017, by an independent UKAS accredited testing body, and subsequenty confirmed as having met the acceptance criteria set out in BR 135? undergone an assessment and been subsequenty confirmed, in a desktop study report and in the professiona opinion of a suitaby quaified fire speciaist, suitabe for the designated project i.e. that the acceptance criteria of BR 135 woud be met? App fire sui con rep suit acc NO YES YES COMPLIANCE ACHIEVED COMPLIANCE COMPLIANCE ACHIEVED ACHIEVED Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board is suitabe for use and cavity barriers shoud be provided at the ocations and intervas specified in the documents supporting the nationa Buiding Reguations. The proposed façade system buid up, incorporating Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board, meets the acceptance criteria set out in BR 135 and can thus be deemed compiant for a storeys of the buiding. The proposed façade system buid up, incorporating Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board woud meet the acceptance criteria set out in BR 135 and can thus be deemed compiant for a storeys of the buiding. Th inc Rain the se ca com 16

17 In accordance with Approved Document B Voume 2, Technica Handbooks Section 2 and BCA Technica Guidance Note 18 Option 4. A sophisticated hoistic approach based on scientific principes from an integrated or a whoe buiding perspective. Considered the ony practica way to achieve fire safety requirements, particuary for arge, compex or muti purpose buidings. FIRE SAFETY ENGINEERING ROUTE GET IN TOUCH! oint a suitaby quaified speciaist to assess the tabiity of the proposed façade system. Do they, in their professiona opinion, firm in a desktop study ort that the buid up is abe for the designated project, i.e. that the eptance criteria of BR 135 woud be met? NO BCA OPTION 4 SCIENTIFIC APPROACH Is the avaiabe data for the proposed façade system, incuding that for Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board in isoation, sufficient to form part of the information that is required to undertake a detaied anaysis of reevant, specific aspects of fire safety engineering in buidings? NO highrisetechnica@kingspan.com Kingspan Insuation s dedicated technica advisory service wi endeavour to assist those engaged in desktop studies or fire safety engineering and those seeking: practica guidance on how to satisfy the requirements of the fire safety engineer; coaboration on arge scae testing programs; evidence of performance by way of officia reports and certification; or anything ese. YES YES COMPLIANCE ACHIEVED e proposed façade system buid up, orporating Kingspan Kootherm K15 screen Board, meets acceptance criteria t out in BR 135 and n thus be deemed piant for a storeys of the buiding. COMPLIANCE ACHIEVED Compiance is not contingent upon the standaone fire performance of the proposed façade system or Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board. Compiance can ony be determined after a factors that affect the buiding are considered hoisticay. NB On September 10th 2018 a circuar etter was distributed, from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Loca Government, which informs buiding contro bodies about issues arising from assessments of externa wa cadding systems. Pending a decision foowing the consutations in Engand (Banning the use of combustibe materias in the externa was of high rise residentia buidings & Amendments to statutory guidance on assessments in ieu of test in Approved Document B) and any subsequent changes to Approved Document B, the use of assessments has been prohibited. Therefore, ony the inear route and the exact system test data route provide compiance in Engand. 17

18 Appendix B Exact System Test Data Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board has been successfuy tested to BS : 2002 / BS : 2015+A1: 2017 and BS : 2005 / BS : 2015+A1: 2017, in accordance with the performance criteria set out in BR 135. The foowing images are iustrative ony and shoud not be used for design purposes. For fu detais refer to the test reports. Test reports owned by Kingspan Insuation can be provided on request by emaiing highrisetechnica@kingspan.com. BS : 2002 test report: BR 135: 2013 cassification report: P * BS : 2005 test report: BR 135: 2013 cassification report: * 60 mm Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board fixed to 100 mm bockwork substrate. 140 mm Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board fixed to a 12 mm Euroform Versapane cement partice board. Two ayers of 12.5 mm British Gypsum Gyproc pasterboard fixed to 150 mm SFS. 6 mm non combustibe UAC cement partice board cadding fixed to an auminium vertica support raiing system at 600 mm centres. 2.5 mm graphite based intumescent strip bonded to 0.6 mm gavanised stee sheet. Auminium top hat support. Auminium heping hand bracket. AIM horizonta cavity barrier with intumescent strip. 30 mm Tayor Maxwe Tampa terracotta ties fixed to an auminium vertica support raiing system. *isted on the BRE website: *isted on the BRE website: 18

19 BS : 2005 test report: BR 135: 2013 cassification report: BS : 2005 test report: P BR 135: 2013 cassification report: P * 80 mm Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board fixed to a 12 mm cement partice board. Two ayers of 12.5 mm pasterboard fixed to 150 mm SFS. Lamatherm CW-RSV vertica non-expanding cavity barrier. 140 mm Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board fixed to a 12 mm Euroform Versapane cement partice board. Two ayers of 12.5 mm British Gypsum Gyproc pasterboard fixed to 150 mm SFS. Auminium top hat support. Auminium heping hand bracket. Argeton heping hand bracket. Lamatherm CW-RHS horizonta intumescent expanding cavity barrier. AIM VRB Pus horizonta intumescent expanding cavity barrier. 30 mm Tayor Maxwe Standard Cassico terracotta tie fixed to an auminium vertica support raiing system. 30 mm Argeton Tampa terracotta tie fixed with Argeton Tampa cips to an Argeton auminium vertica support raiing system. *isted on the BRE website: *isted on the BRE website: 19

20 Appendix B BS : 2015+A1: 2017 test report: P BR 135: 2013 cassification report: P * 100 mm Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board fixed to 100 mm bockwork substrate. Siderise RSV 90/30 vertica cavity barrier. BS : 2015+A1: 2017 test report: P BR 135: 2013 cassification report: P * 100 mm Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board fixed to 100 mm bockwork substrate. Siderise RSV 90/30 vertica cavity barrier. Auminium heping hand bracket. Auminium heping hand bracket. Siderise RH25G 90/30 horizonta open state cavity barrier with intumescent strip. Siderise RH25G 90/30 horizonta open state cavity barrier with intumescent strip. Booth Muirie BML 400 rivet fixed 4 mm Mitsubishi ALPOLIC/fr ACM pane (category 2 core materia), with 4 mm joints, to an auminium vertica support raiing system. Booth Muirie BML 400 rivet fixed 4 mm Mitsubishi ALPOLIC/fr ACM pane (category 2 core materia), with 10 mm joints, to an auminium vertica support raiing system. *isted on the BRE website: *isted on the BRE website: 20

21 BS : 2015+A1: 2017 test report: P BR 135: 2013 cassification report: P * BS : 2015+A1: 2017 test report: DLR1448 BR 135: 2013 cassification report: SR mm Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board fixed to 100 mm bockwork substrate. Siderise RSV 90/30 vertica cavity barrier. 100 mm Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board fixed to 100 mm bockwork substrate. Siderise RV25 S-90/30 vertica cavity barrier. Siderise open state cassette insert. Auminium heping hand bracket. Siderise RH25 S-90/30 intumescent horizonta cavity barrier. Siderise RH25G 90/30 horizonta open state cavity barrier with intumescent strip. Booth Muirie BML 100-HP (Hook Pate System) vertica auminium Y rai. Booth Muirie BML 400 rivet fixed 4 mm Mitsubishi ALPOLIC/A2 ACM pane, with 20 mm joints, to an auminium vertica support raiing system. Booth Muirie BML 100-HP (Hook Pate System) 3 mm powder coated auminium cassette pane. *isted on the BRE website: Reports prepared for Mitsubishi Chemica Corporation, 1-1Manurouchi 1-chrome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo , Japan. 21

22 Appendix B BS : 2015+A1: 2017 test report: P BR 135: 2013 cassification report: P * BS : 2015+A1: 2017 test report: DLR1453 BR 135: 2013 cassification report: SR mm Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board fixed to 100 mm bockwork substrate. Siderise RSV 90/30 vertica cavity barrier. Siderise open state cassette insert. 100 mm Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board fixed to 100 mm bockwork substrate. Siderise RSV 90/30 vertica cavity barrier. Siderise open state cassette insert. Siderise RH25G 90/30 intumescent horizonta cavity barrier. Siderise RH25G 90/30 intumescent horizonta cavity barrier. Booth Muirie BML 100-HP (Hook Pate System) vertica auminium Y rai. Booth Muirie BML 100-HP (Hook Pate System) vertica auminium Y rai. 4 mm Mitsubishi ALPOLIC/A2 ACM cassette pane. 4 mm Mitsubishi ALPOLIC/fr ACM cassette pane. *isted on the BRE website: Reports prepared for Mitsubishi Chemica Corporation, 1-1 Manurouchi 1-chrome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo , Japan. 22

23 BS : 2005 test report: BR 135: 2013 cassification report: P * BS : 2005 test report: BR 135: 2013 cassification report: P mm Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board fixed to a 12 mm cement based cacium sheathing board. CAREA Acantha grooved pane cadding fixed to a horizonta support raiing system on heping hand brackets. Two ayers of 12.5 mm pasterboard fixed to 100 mm SFS. Two ayers of 60 mm Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board fixed to 12 mm cement partice sheathing board. Stofix ventiated brick cadding system on horizonta rais secured to a Stofix vertica raiing system using Stofix right ange brackets. Two ayers of 12.5 mm pasterboard mechanicay fixed to 150 mm SFS. *isted on the BRE website: Reports prepared for CAREA Façade, ZA Be Air, 49520, Combrée, France. (UK Office: CAREA Ltd, 85 Feet Street, 7 th Foor, London EC4Y 1AE). Reports prepared for Stofix Oy, Lentokatu 2, Ouu, Finand. (UK Office: Stofix UK Ltd, St. James House, 13 Kensington Square, London W8 5HD). BS : 2005 test report: P BR 135: 2013 cassification report: P Two ayers of 12.5 mm pasterboard fixed to 150 mm Kingspan Kingframe SFS fied with rock minera fibre. 120 mm Kingspan Kootherm K15 Rainscreen Board fixed to a 12 mm sheathing board. 60 mm Gebrik cadding panes comprising 43 mm rigid poyurethane foam behind 17 mm brick sips fixed to the inner sheathing board. Reports prepared for Aquarian Cadding Systems, Eversea Business Centre, 13 Gardens Road, Cevedon, North Somerset BS21 7QQ and Isosystems, Mamedyer Weg 62, B 4770, AMEL Schoppen, Begium. 23

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