Fire Regulations for Green Walls

FIRE REGULATIONS FOR GREEN WALLS

As part of the online seminar series, the webinar Fire Regulations for Green Walls took place on November 16, 2022.

This webinar gave the participants an insight into fire testings and research projects within Austria and Germany. The webinar aroused considerable interest among the audience.

The following topics were discussed:

Austria

  • „History“ of fire tests of facade greening
  • Main results of tests
  • Development of fire regulations concerning facade greening
  • Best Practice

Germany

Fire performance of green facades:

  • Research in Germany
  • Regulations
  • Recommendations
  • Examples

Find useful information, studies and regulations below:

This webinar was supported by: Terapia Urbana, GreenWall, Jakob Rope Systems, CarlStahl and Greentexx

The speakers

Dipl.-Ing. Dieter Werner

Head of Building Physics Lab

Testing, Inspection and Certification Department (MA39)
City of Vienna, Austria

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M.Sc Julia Noder-Schaab

Civil Engineer

Bundesverband GebäudeGrün e.V. (BuGG), Germany

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(11/2022)