The new National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 5000 Building Construction and Safety Code and NFPA 101 Life Safety Code have Allowances for larger and taller mass timber buildings. “The addition ...
Tad Bradley looks at Boise Fire Station 13's innovative design by using cross-laminated timber to increase operational ...
naturally:wood highlights insights from the Mass Timber Demonstration Fire Test program The Mass Timber Demonstration Fire Test Program has shown that mass timber buildings perform similarly to ...
Firefighters and fire chiefs: Forget everything you know about wood construction. Tall wood buildings (TWB)—or more accurately tall mass timber buildings—are not the conventional, lightweight wood, ...
OTTAWA, Ontario – The Canadian Wood Council (CWC), working with the Canadian and Ontario governments, plans to conduct a series of five separate research burns on a full-scale timber structure in ...
OTTAWA, Ontario — Results from some of the most extensive fire testing of large-scale, mass timber construction marks a "significant milestone in the advancement of mass timber construction." The ...