Fire Design: Passive Fire Protection
To minimise fire risk, timber-frame wall and floor systems must be designed to maximise resistance, by implementing the different performance benefits of various assembly layers.
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Fire Design: Principles
Understanding fire behaviour and how it affects buildings and occupants is critical to the design of fire safety strategies. Designers utilising timber construction should understand the means of fire protection, general concepts of evacuation safety, and how to ensure design strategies meet and exceed fire safety objectives.
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Fire Design: Regulation
Fire safety in timber construction is subject to national building regulations and prescriptive-based design approaches.
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How to minimise fire risks during construction
Are your timber projects as safe as they can possibly be while they are onsite? That’s when they are at their most vulnerable, as many fire protection measures aren’t necessarily in place yet. The new Timber Fire Safety webite - timberfiresafety.org - contains a wealth of essential information about ensuring...
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