Aktuelle Entwicklungen bei Verblendmauerwerksabfangungen

Current Developments for Brickwork Support Systems.

Brickwork masonry is a traditional building material for façade constructions and is applied today in a two cavity construction. This enables a strict separation of loadbearing structure and façade elements and thus allows for insulation in between. This common building technique is defined in regulation DIN 1053 for Germany. Recently demands for solutions beyond the above mentioned regulations can be detected. The Main reasons for this are increasing requirements for insulation and focus on energy consumption of buildings. In Germany the EnEV (an Energy Saving Regulation) has come into force in 2002. This regulation specifies that energy loss via façade areas have to be reduced to a minimum and the requirements are increasingly becoming more and more effective with each edition. This leads to increased cavities beyond the specifications of the currently available DIN 1053-1:1996-11 mainly due to the required insulation thicknesses. Other influences such as thermal bridges due to brickwork support brackets and brick ties come into focus, too. The following essay will show how designer and engineers can react to the ongoing changes and increasing requirements and which solutions can be provided by company Halfen as a supplier of brickwork support systems.