The Fire Safety Order - closing the knowledge gap

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Peter Barker, Principal Technical Officer at BM TRADA, discusses the impact that the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order has had on the passive fire protection industry

Article from the TRADA Timber Industry Yearbook 2015

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Upgrading timber doorsets for fire resistancenavigation-arrow

This Wood Information Sheet gives guidance on assessing the suitability of existing doors for upgrading to give a 20 or 30 minutes' fire resistance comparable with that of purpose-made fire doors. Upgrading to 60 minutes' performance will rarely be possible.

Upgrading the fire resistance of existing doors is...

11/04/2017 |  Wood Information Sheet  

Performance of fire-resisting timber doorsetsnavigation-arrow

Fire-resisting doorsets are required to be able to contain a fully developed fire, to facilitate escape of a building's occupants and allow fire fighting, and to protect the contents and/or the structure from the effects of fire. The doorset therefore must have resistance to fire, expressed in terms of time.

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11/04/2017 |  Wood Information Sheet  

How does CLT perform in a fire?navigation-arrow

Oliver Neve explains what happens to CLT during a fire, extracted from TRADA’s forthcoming book on the performance of cross-laminated timber (CLT).

 

Article from Timber 2017 Industry Yearbook

01/03/2017 |  Magazine Article