Technical manual ‘Facades and interior walls of bricks and ceramic blocks’

The construction solutions adopted on facades and interior walls must comply with all the requirements of the Technical Building Code that apply to them. To achieve this, there must be a balance between the different benefits of the solution, since it is common for the improvement of one benefit to be offset by the worsening of another. For example, increasing the surface mass of a wall has a positive impact on its acoustic insulation, but can penalize its thermal insulation capacity. Thus, when choosing the optimal type of façade or interior wall, we will opt for the one that provides sufficient values to meet all the requirements, and not a solution that provides the best value for a specific parameter, but which nevertheless does not reach the minimum value to meet some other required condition. To help architects and designers in this decision, the Guild of Rajolers of the Valencian Community with the collaboration of the Generalitat Valenciana through the INENTI Project, and Hispalyt, have published the ‘Technical Manual Facades and interior walls of bricks and ceramic blocks for coat’. Bricks and ceramic blocks: solutions that comply The manual describes through tables each of the different construction solutions for facades, separating walls and partitions, made with bricks and ceramic blocks. For each type of facade and interior wall, their thermal, acoustic, fire resistance and, in the case of facades, protection against humidity performance are indicated, as well as compliance with the corresponding CTE requirements. The 11 construction systems for facades that are included are: Facade of one or two factory sheets with SATE, with elastic bands at the base or on the perimeter of the interior sheet. Facades of two mixed sheets with SATE. Ventilated facades with one or two factory leaves with elastic bands at the base or on the perimeter of the inner leaf. Ventilated facades with two mixed leaves. Self-supporting facades with two factory sheets with elastic bands at the base or on the perimeter of the inner sheet. Self-supporting facades with two mixed sheets. The 8 construction systems for vertical interior partitions that are included are: Separating walls of a heavy Silensis factory leaf. Silensis factory lightweight two-leaf separating walls Silensis factory light-heavy two-leaf separating walls. Silensis factory three-leaf separating walls. Separating walls of two and three mixed leaves. Light factory partitions for distribution of living spaces Heavy factory partitions to separate non-habitable areas.