A Case Study Comparing the Fire Risk in a Building of Non-combustible Frame and a Timber Frame Building

Abstract

In the last two decades, a considerable number of multi-storey apartment buildings have been constructed in the Nordic countries using timber as load-bearing material. Such constructions have earlier not been allowed by the authorities, mainly due to the fire risk. The Nordic countries there-fore co-operated for some years, within an organisation named Nordic Wood, with the aim of developing construction methodologies that seriously diminish the fire risk in timber-frame multi-storey buildings.