Nysa Industry Updates - Designing Timber Buildings For Fire

Timber is a key modern construction material and its recent revival on the back of increased sustainability awareness can help designers and clients reduce embodied carbon emissions for our built environment interventions.

With the current challenges the industry faces with insurers, it is important to learn how to navigate around the design issues and how to detail structures well to improve their performance and reassure insurers and clients.This CPD will explain our role as structural engineers in designing timber buildings for fire and how we collaborate with other consultants to successfully deliver timber developments.

We will also discuss structural fire safety objectives and how they can be achieved.Connections are an essential part of timber design, and we will outline some points of good practice for connection design in fire.

The case studies highlighted illustrate how some fire design concepts impact real-life structural proposals.