Fire safety in multi-storey mass timber structures

Fire Safety Engineering of Buildings with Visible Timber Constructions. This describes the fire safety design of the tallest timber building in the world.

Heat Delamination in CLT: Intermediate Scale Test Based Upon The North American Standards. A proposed mid-scale test for assessing fire performance of CLT adhesives in PRG 320.

Observations of Smouldering Fire in a Large Timber Compartment. Description of hotspots and holes in CLT panels hours or days after the big fires. “CodeRed” fires.

A Design Approach to External Fire Spread from Buildings with Exposed Mass Timber. 

Fire-Protected Timber Elements of Construction – Response During Fire Decay and Cooling Phase.

Explicit Fire Safety for Modern Mass Timber Structures – From Theory to Practice. A good overview of fire safety in mass timber buildings, written by Australian fire engineers.

Flame Spread Characteristics in Large Compartments with an Exposed Timber Ceiling. 

Natural Fire Tests on GLT Columns Including the Cooling Down Phase. Jean-Marc publicised this issue in NZ earlier in 2023 and is particularly relevant for tall buildings.

Accounting for Post-Peak Compartment Temperature Thermal Degradation of Mass Timber. This paper backs up Jean-Marc’s concerns about column failure during or after the decay phase.

Travelling Fires in Compartments with Exposed CLT Surfaces. This paper covers large fires in a large firecell and the interaction between burning on the ceiling and wood cribs.

Fire spread in a large compartment with exposed cross-laminated timber and open ventilation conditions: #FRIC-02 - Exposed wall and ceiling.