132412 20260217205457.0 doi 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.111083 sideral 137560 ART-2024-137560 eng Pérez-Bella, José M. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-4278-6622 Closing the gap between traditional wind-driven rain studies and the performance-based design of building façades: Case study of the Netherlands 2024 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Over the last few decades, analyses of wind-driven rain exposure on building façades have been conducted in multiple regions. Sometimes, these studies also included the driving rain wind pressure, thereby characterising both critical factors contributing to rainwater penetration into façade materials. However, practitioners typically rely on performance results obtained from standardised watertightness tests to make façade design decisions, even though these tests do not recreate the specific exposure combinations that can occur on each façade. Consequently, there is no quantitative correlation between the traditionally identified exposures and actual façade designs, resulting in pure qualitative choices and poorly optimised designs. This study addresses this issue by correcting the existing methodological deficiencies in a prior calculation procedure, which aims to relate the exposure parameters that the façade configuration withstood during any watertightness test to the expected climate exposures at its design operating conditions. New contributions are presented to enhance the method reliability as well as to reduce calculation effort and reliance on exhaustive weather data. The various climate parameters required to establish this relationship were analysed and tabulated for the Netherlands, enabling a truly performance-based design of façades to resist rainwater penetration throughout the country. Different methods of implementing this procedure, according to the availability of weather data, were also compared for façade case studies located in Amsterdam and Maastricht. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2021-122203OB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es 7.6 2024 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY 9 / 95 = 0.095 2024 Q1 T1 ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL 16 / 83 = 0.193 2024 Q1 T1 ENGINEERING, CIVIL 9 / 184 = 0.049 2024 Q1 T1 1.858 2024 Building and Construction 2024 Q1 Geography, Planning and Development 2024 Q1 Environmental Engineering 2024 Q1 Civil and Structural Engineering 2024 Q1 14.3 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Domínguez-Hernández, Javier Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-3776-9791 López-Julián, Pedro L. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-5585-2126 Salesa-Bordabana, Ángel (orcid)0000-0002-1342-8482 Orna-Carmona, Martín (orcid)0000-0001-5634-9357 5004 510 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ingeniería Mecánica Area Ingeniería Construcción 2000 428 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ciencias de la Tierra Área Geodinámica Interna 248 (2024), 111083 [11 pp.] Build. environ. Building and Environment 0360-1323 1800235 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/132412/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2585647 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/132412/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:132412 articulos driver 2026-02-17-20:20:44 ARTICLE