Preliminary Study on Measures to Improve Fire Safety in Existing High-Rise Residential Buildings with Combustible Façades

The tragic fires at the Grenfell Tower (London, UK) in 2017 and the building in the Campanar neighbourhood (Valencia, Spain) in 2024, among other fires, occurring in existing high-rise residential buildings with combustible façades, have prompted a review on regulations and statutory procedures, as well as the development of new risk assessment methods, research reports, and expert studies in order to enhance fire safety in such buildings. Within this context, this article is aimed at providing a compilation, in the form of a preliminary state-of-the-art review, of various fire safety measures that can be adopted in these types of buildings, and to contrast the main measures identified with the requirements set out in Spanish national regulations.