Offering insight into Brock Common’s passive fire strategy, we discuss how the passive fire safety approach should not be considered industry best practice, and how fire testing would have supported the project’s overall goal of being a unique research and learning opportunity related to innovative construction with engineered wood products.

Wood is one of the oldest building materials in the world but it is also the material of the future. Engineered Wood Products (EWPs) are currently challenging the status quo of the construction industry like nothing else and are taking this humble material to the next level.

We finish our three part series by showcasing how encapsulating mass timber elements with an intumescent protective coating provides a passive fire solution that is holistic and truly compliant.