Review and improvement of the water tightness degree required by the CTE DB-HS1 for building façades
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Driving rain, wind pressure, water tightness, Spanish Technical Building Code (CTE), façade designAbstract
The Spanish Technical Building Code published in 2006 regulates the basic requirements of building façades to prevent the inadequate presence of atmospheric water inside Spanish buildings. The moisture exposure estimate, based on several climate parameters, allows adjusting these requirements for every location and façade. However, the parameters used by the Spanish Code can be improved, resulting in a more appropriate estimate of the required water tightness degree and thus in an improvable allocations of the necessary design conditions. This paper reviews these parameters, presenting other internationally applied, and analyses the moisture exposure in the Spanish territory, which would allow improving the subsequent performance of the basic requirements imposed to the façades.
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