Cross Laminated Timber; A Design-Stage Primer by Nic Crawley

Author:Nic Crawley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RIBA Publishing
Published: 2021-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Design stage issues

As with other forms of construction, most projects beyond the simplest forms will require specialist structural fire engineering input. Such expertise and competent decision making must be involved, potentially undertaking a qualitative design review, to clearly identify, and then address the hazards introduced through the use of engineered timber for specific building types, scale and occupancy.

Understanding the objectives

Teams will need to consider and set out structural objectives, whether that be to allow adequate time and conditions for escape and external access for fire fighting operations (primarily life safety) or for other higher risk buildings, not so readily evacuated, the acceptable likelihood of surviving burnout. For commercial buildings, asset protection from a value point of view or business continuity aspect may be additional considerations.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.