The current focus on mass timber structures necessitates the need for WOBO members and fellow professionals to review and update their knowledge and expertise to reflect the integration and protection of timber within Mass Timber Structures.
Publication context
Current good practice and clarification of the applicability of common design guidance for use by design professionals; to support competent fire safety strategy decisions, specifically relating to the structural stability of a building in the event of a fire within a compartment.
The content only focuses on English Building Regulation B3(1) “Internal fire spread – structure”, with other Building Regulation requirements to be considered separately.
Who should read this?
Principal designers, architects, engineers, project design co-ordinators, fire engineers, building control bodies and the fire and rescue service. This guidance is for use by competent persons from the construction industry, who understand the sector they work in.
http://www.structuraltimber.co.uk/Vol_6_Fire_Safety_2020
If you missed the webinar delivered by Carmen Gorska and Danny Hopkin on the fire safety in-use guidance for mass timber buildings (Vol. 6), you can now watch via the link below: