What would be the best construction materials for making a home fire resistant?
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What would be the best construction materials for making a home fire resistant?
Tyler Harris
March 14, 2022Last updated: March 14, 2022
我希望最终能在爱达荷州中部一个远离电网的地方建房子，我很好奇专家们对这项工作的最佳建筑材料是什么。我想购买一个环保的预制房屋，但除了完全脱离网格之外，我正在寻找一种材料，是高度耐候性和防火。野火在这个地区很常见，我想用绝缘混凝土形式来解决这个问题。我能找到的所有预制方案都使用了相当数量的木材，我担心这会使结构处于危险之中。此外，气温在零下30华氏度到100华氏度之间变化，超过10英尺的积雪是典型的情况。
Thank you in advance for your help.
The first step to building a home that is fire resistant is to ensure there is a significant fire break between your home and other combustible materials, be that trees or combustible out buildings like a wooden shed or garage. Fire resistant home design would then be a matter of selecting non-combustible building materials. Here is our page on fire resistant home design -
How to protect your home from fire
这里有一个住宅建筑的例子，可能会提供一些价值——我们的第一个概念示范住宅是魁北克的Kenogami住宅(这个建筑是因为之前的房子在森林大火中烧毁了，所以防火是优先考虑的)。这个家并没有完全脱离电网，但离得很近。It was called the most resilient house in North America by Alex Wilson, founder of the Resilient Design Institute and it also won a “most resilient home of the year award from Green Builder Media, so it may provide some valuable design tips for off grid ‘future proof home design’, you can read more here –
Kenogami House - the most resilient house in North America
Some ideas from the outside in starting at a distance would be – build the home at a safe distance from trees and shrubbery, have a good band of non-combustible surface surrounding the home like patio stones or loose river stones, that will protect it from burning trees and grass fires. Exterior cladding should be non-combustible like cement board or metal. To protect against falling ash and embers be sure to have a metal roof and soffit. A further level of protection would be fire proof insulation such as mineral wool behind siding.
Hi Mike,
非常感谢您周到的回复。我当然也计划清除邻近的木材和灌木来保护自己。
Is there any chance you could share the design for the Kenogami house? Alternatively are you aware of any prefabricated options that are highly fire resistant?
谢谢你！
Hi Tyler, very happy to help.
我们没有Kenogami住宅的计划，但是我们有很多关于各种系统的内容。如果你在生态家园网页顶部的搜索栏中输入“Kenogami”，你会发现关于它的其他页面。
as for Prefabs, ourlow carbon footprint S1600 LEED Prefab kit houseis mostly metal exterior, and we have others, you cansee LEED and Passive House ready prefab kit houses for the US here, and we are hoping to have other models coming on line in the near future, though none are specifically designed for fire resistance and I don't know of any that are, I would suggest you pay attention to the exterior and material composition whether you are going prefab or designing from scratch.