It can be cost-effective to design wood structures for resilience and safety during fire events.
With growing public interest in sustainable building and with the addition of “mass timber” Construction Types IV-A, IV-B, and IV-C to the 2021 International Building Code (IBC), design professionals are increasingly required to design mass timber building elements to fire-resistance ratings prescribed by the IBC. While many members of the public, and even building design professionals at times, associate wood construction with inherent fire risks, it is feasible and can even be cost-effective to design wood structures for resilience and safety during fire events.
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