Following last week’s severe fire at a partially built development of flats in Peckham, south London, which spread to neighbouring inhabited homes, senior fire officers are calling for action on ...

The rapid rise in the use of timber frame construction has raised serious questions that the insurance and construction industries must address. There are significant benefits in using timber frames ...

The fire performance of modern methods of construction and timber frame buildings came under the spotlight at an insurance industry event last week. The Risc Authority’s seminar was held in the wake ...

Firefighters and fire chiefs: Forget everything you know about wood construction. Tall wood buildings (TWB)—or more accurately tall mass timber buildings—are not the conventional, lightweight wood, ...

While interest in tall timber buildings continues to grow, there still remains one obvious concern: combustibility. So how safe are timber structures really? Arup Connect spoke with Robert Gerard, a ...

Should older people have been housed in a building made of timber frame? @insidehousing investigates the Crewe care home fire #ukhousing “I couldn’t believe how quickly it went up,” recalls Diane ...

A report into the fire at the Colindale timber-frame housing development in north London last July has questioned whether this construction method should be used for high-rise buildings. The report, ...