Ideal for creating practical outdoor spaces, timber decking provides an excellent garden landscaping option when it is correctly specified, designed, installed, and maintained.
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.
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.