Learn how innovative walls balance safety and sustainability.
Exterior walls play a critical role in building appearance as well as sustainability and energy performance. However, combustible components of exterior walls pose a significant risk to fire safety as they contribute to fire spread, causing fires to grow in size and intensity. The risks posed to life safety have been under significant focus following high profile, large loss fatal building façade fires such as Grenfell Tower, and continue to be scrutinized following the more recent fatal apartment fire in Valencia.
The International Building Code requires exterior wall assemblies with combustible cladding, insulation, or other materials in some buildings meet specific provisions for limiting vertical and lateral flame propagation by meeting NFPA 285 compliance criteria. Recent updates to these codes allow engineering analysis to confirm compliance. Insulating Concrete Form walls combine reinforced concrete for strength and durability and expanded polystyrene insulation for energy efficiency. ICFs differ from traditional concrete construction; the forms remain in place after the concrete is cured to provide thermal insulation. The EPS insulation means these walls include combustible components. This presentation shares case studies involving testing and engineering analysis as well as real world performance of ICF wall assemblies to demonstrate compliance with updated code requirements for fire safety.
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to describe what ICFs are and how they are used in building construction.
- You will be able to define applicable code requirements and relevant standards for ICF construction.
- You will be able to discuss testing and analysis of two very unique ICF wall constructions and analysis.
- You will be able to explain the fire safety performance of ICF walls.
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Shamim Rashid-Sumar, PE, FSFPE
National Ready Mixed Concrete Association
- Senior Vice President, Codes and Standards at the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association
- 2026 President at the Society of Fire Protection Engineers
- President of the Alliance for Concrete Codes and Standards
- Currently provides technical support regarding codes, standards, regulations, and legislation at the national, state, and local level.
- Over two decades of experience in building and fire code consulting and performance-based design, working on a multitude of projects including government facilities, hospitals and medical centers, airport terminals, museums, high-rise buildings, hotels, malls, and other special use facilities.
- Regularly speaks as an industry expert on technical topics such as façade risk assessments, fire alarm system fundamentals and nuisance alarms, recent updates to codes, delivery of code compliant projects, fire testing of ICF walls, resilience, and the balanced approach to fire safety.
- Principal member of several NFPA Technical Committees, including Structures, Construction, and Materials, Fire Tests, Residential Occupancies, and Wildland and Rural Fire Protection. She is also a member of the ACI 216 Committee on Fire Resistance and Fire Protection of Structures, ACI 560 Committee on Design and Construction with Insulating Concrete Forms, ASTM E05 Committee on Fire Standards, the ICC Performance Code, and the ICC Multi-Hazard Resiliency for Residential Construction Committee.
- B.S. in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park
- Can be contacted at [email protected]
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