Live Member Webinar: Fire Safe Use of Wood in Buildings - Global Design Guide

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This webinar will present the new book Fire Safe Use of Wood in Buildings - Global Design Guide, published in 2022. It introduces the behavior of fires in timber buildings and describes strategies for providing safety if a fire might occur. It provides guidance on building design to prevent fires from spreading while maintaining the load-bearing capacity of structural timber elements, connections and compartmentation. Also included is information on the reaction-to-fire of wood products according to different classification systems, as well as active measures of fire protection, quality of workmanship and inspection as means of fulfilling fire safety objectives.

Contributors

Birgit Östman

Birgit Östman is Senior researcher and Emeritus in Building Technology,
Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden.
She has over 40 year's experience in fire research, with a specific focus on
fire safety in timber buildings. Her work covers research and
standardization, spanning reaction to fire, fire resistance, active fire
protection, building regulations and industrial applications. She has
coordinated major national and international projects, is an expert in
international standards committees, including the Wood Wisdom project,
Fire In Timber, and has worked at wood research organizations such as
STFI (Swedish Forest Products Research Institute) and Trätek (Institute for
Wood Technology Research).
Awards include Bernadotte Royal Award, Swedish Forestry Association
2016 and the Markwardt Award for best paper in Wood and Fibre Science
2018-2019.

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Contributors

Birgit Östman