Grenfell Tower Response: Urgent Research on External Cladding Fires
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Edinburgh
Department Name: Sch of Engineering
Abstract
This is a Urgency Funding Proposal related to the Grenfell Tower Fire. Please refer to the case for support.
Planned Impact
This is a Urgency Funding Proposal related to the Grenfell Tower Fire. Please refer to the pathways to impact.
Organisations
| Description | Key findings relate to the rate of fire spread in vertical cavities. The rate of fire spread with different combinations of materials has been quantified and the mechanisms that control this fire spread have also been analysed. |
| Exploitation Route | This work can be taken forward by others with respect to future mitigations strategies for vertical fire spread and also form the basis for future modelling of fire spread on vertical systems. |
| Sectors | Construction |
| Description | Feedback to expert government expert panel helped in the production of guidance notes for industry. Experimental work has also informed the development of the experimental programme that is being used to investigate the Grenfell Tower fire. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Construction |
| Impact Types | Policy & public services |
| Description | Feedback to MHCLG expert panel |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Feedback to government expert panel on results from experimental programme. |
| Description | Presentations to Industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentations to the BRE fire research conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |