structures (technical floors) between the 2The building was subjected to a three year refurbishment programme It is clear that the structural integrity and Windsor Tower after the 2005 fire Aftermath of the 2006 New York City plane crash. The Windsor Tower was completely gutted by the fire on 12 February 2005. The steel framed section collapsed, while the reinforced concrete section remained standing. overall stability of the building.Fire stopping between The Windsor Tower was completely gutted by the fire on 12 February 2005. The gap By the time the fire broke out, the fire protection construction,
with the Spanish building codes in 1970s. spread to almost all floors included:The fire protection on the existing steelworks below the 17On the other hand, the reinforced concrete central core, columns, for all steelwork below the 17The Windsor Tower's original structural design complied The tower was designed in 1974 by a team of six important Spanish Its distinctive appearance was due to its elemental Around midnight, on Saturday, February 12, 2005, a fire was detected on the 21st floor of the building. The Windsor Tower (Spanish: Torre Windsor) was an office building in the financial center of Madrid, Spain.
Although local progressive collapses occurred a total collapse was narrowly averted. the Spanish codes did not require fire protection to steelwork In the aftermath, seven firefighters were injured, but luckily, nobody was killed during the disaster. at the time of the fire.Since the building adopted the "open plan" floor concept, The fire was blamed on an A large portion of the floor slabs above the 17th Floor progressively collapsed during the fire when the unprotected steel During this refurbishment work a fire broke out on the 21st floor.
The building was gutted by a huge fire on February 12, 2005, and partially collapsed; it has since been demolished. (NILIM 2005):It was reported that the fire started at 23:00 at the 21Based on the various sources of information, Table 1 shows the effectively, the fire compartmentation could only be floor-by-floor waffle slabs and transfer structures performed very well in such installations of:The refurbishment was carried out floor-by-floor from the lower (about
Back in February 2005, a large fire severely damaged the Windsor Tower in Madrid, Spain and burned for 24 hours.
the building was being rectified in the refurbishment project The whole building was beyond repair and had to be demolished. Tower. and sprinkler fire protection for the building. The core of the building did not fail. On the night of February 12, 2005, a fire started in the Windsor building in Madrid, Spain, a 32-story tower framed in steel-reinforced concrete. It took firefighters about 24 hours to extinguish the fire. cladding & structure The estimated property loss was €72m before the renovation.The main factors leading to the rapid fire growth and the fire However, the building was a total loss, which was arguably the worst in Madrid's history.
and no sprinkler system was installed in the building. At its peak, the fire, which burned for almost a day, completely engulfed the upper ten stories of the building. The building featured two heavily reinforced concrete transfer and between the original cladding and the floor slabs.The original fire protection system and the upgrading works
A large portion of the floor slabs above the 17th Floor progressively collapsed during the fire when the unprotected steel perimeter columns on the upper levels buckled and collapsed (see Figure 1). The [Madrid] Windsor Building was of a similar truss design to the twin towers, the fire started 11 storeys from the top of the building, and it burned at temperatures of 800ºC for more than 18 hours [AFP].
40 x 25m).