Fire safe building with wood

The topic of fire safety is gathering increasing interest, as the current fire codes and regulations have been conceived for other building materials.

To be most effective, fire prevention considerations and possible risks need to be considered at the design stage.

Human safety in wood buildings is assured. Methods to prevent and limit spread of fire are compartmentation, automatic extinguishing, and if needed, limiting areas of visible wood. In exit routes, any combustibles must be limited in all buildings.