Timber buildings Archives

Meet the Fire NZ Conference Speaker: Colleen Wade

September 22, 2022

Dr Colleen Wade discusses the differences between the fire behaviour of timber and traditional building materials, the danger in applying current Acceptable Solution settings to mass timber, and issues with current fire ratings. At the […]

Meet the Fire NZ Conference Speaker: Andy Buchanan

September 21, 2022

Dr Andy Buchanan talks about the need for an updated Building Code to address timber structures, the challenges of encapsulation for mass timber structures, and how a structural engineer discovered wood and fire. At the […]

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