Fire

Fire safety in timber

• 🇳🇿Fire Safe Use of Wood — Global Design Guide Commentary (SFPE)SFPE (Fire Engineers) NZ · AUGUST 2024The New Zealand commentary (by Timber Unlimited with SFPE) to the international Fire Safe Use of Wood Global Design Guide — how to fire-engineer multi-storey mass timber buildings to meet the NZ Building Code. Draft for public comment.
• 🇳🇿NZ Wood Design Guide — Design for Fire SafetyNZ Wood Design Guides (WPMA) · March 2019Chapter 13.6 of the NZ Wood Design Guides — how to design timber buildings for fire safety, covering fire ratings, charring of timber and meeting the Building Code with wood construction.
• 🇳🇿Timber Unlimited — Fire Safety SupplementTimber Unlimited (WPMA) · 2023Timber Unlimited's interim fire-safety recommendations for multi-storey mass timber buildings, supplementing Building Code Acceptable Solution C/AS2 and Verification Method C/VM2 — addressing the fire load of exposed timber.
• 🇳🇿XLam Fire Design GuideXLam (CLT manufacturer) · AUGUST 2023XLam's fire design guide for its cross-laminated timber (CLT) in Australia and New Zealand — how XLam CLT elements achieve fire resistance and meet fire-safety requirements in mass timber buildings.