This block of flats in Peckham was destroyed after a timber framed building caught fire A controversial safety report, coupled with lobbying by the timber industry, has led to the spread of a ...
The fire ripped through the apartment block just inside Canterbury’s Roman city walls. It started at about 2pm on 4 July as a small blaze in an airing cupboard, likely from a boiler. But it quickly ...
Architects enthusiastic about mass timber must improve their understanding of fire safety or risk disaster, experts tell Dezeen as part of the Timber Revolution series. Uncertainty among governments ...
The Health & Safety Executive has written an open letter warning designers and architects of their responsibilities for managing fire risk during the construction of timber-framed buildings The move ...
The AJ and James Hardie recently hosted a CPD-accredited talk on fire safety by building regs expert and AJ columnist Geoff Wilkinson, followed by a panel discussion ‘We should build a three-storey, ...
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 ...
Fear of fire in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy is holding back a switch to more sustainable building materials, a leading architect has told Sky News. Andrew Waugh of Waugh Thistleton Architects, ...
The fire ripped through the apartment block just inside Canterbury’s Roman city walls. It started at about 2pm on 4 July as a small blaze in an airing cupboard, likely from a boiler. But it quickly ...
A controversial safety report, coupled with lobbying by the timber industry, has led to the spread of a construction method not widely seen in the UK since the Great Fire of London. BBC London has ...