Fire Design Concepts for Tall Timber Buildings

Based on the current knowledge in the area of fire design of timber structures this paper presents a generic fire safety concept for tall timber buildings. The first part of the paper gives an overview of fire action and fire safety concepts and presents the main differences between medium-rise and tall buildings with regard to fire safety. The analysis enables the formulation of a generic fire safety concept for tall timber buildings. In the second part of the paper some experimental results on the fire performance of timber structures under natural fire conditions relevant for tall timber buildings are presented.