Developing performance-based standards for external timber cladding

Davies, Ivor

Abstract

This paper reviews the background to, and development of, new British Standards for external timber cladding. The standards are being produced because timber has become a widely used external cladding material in the UK and this has highlighted that existing standards on the topic are inadequate. When fully published, the BS 8605 series will offer performance-based specifications and guidance on the main issues affecting external timber cladding. The standards involve multi-compliant performance measures; several technical conflicts had to be addressed.

Citation

Davies, I. (2015, June). Developing performance-based standards for external timber cladding. Presented at 6th International Building Physics Conference, IBPC 2015, Torino, Italy

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 6th International Building Physics Conference, IBPC 2015
• Start Date: Jun 14, 2015
• End Date: Jun 17, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Dec 30, 2015
• Publication Date: 2015-11
• Deposit Date: May 13, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 1, 2016
• Journal: Energy Procedia
• Print ISSN: 1876-6102
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 78
• Pages: 183-188
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.137
• Keywords: Timber; external cladding; performance-based design; technical standards; moisture; façade
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8094
• Contract Date: May 13, 2015