Fire-safety aspects of long-span timber structures in industrialbuildings

• Autores: Sander Løkkegaard Benner, Xan Browne, Olga Popovic Larsen
• Localización: Structures and Architecture. Volume 3: REstructure REmaterialize REthink REuse / Mario Rinke (ed. lit.), Marie Frier Hvejsel (ed. lit.), Aníbal Maury Ramírez (ed. lit.), Zena Ndiaye (ed. lit.), Ilse Lindenbergh (ed. lit.), Elise Enthoven (ed. lit.), 2025, ISBN 9781040447239, págs. 11-18
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper investigates the possibilities and challenges in relation to fire-safety for using timber as a structural material in industrial buildings. Combining a literature study with interviews with fire-safety specialists, it goes through historic and fire-safety aspects of industrial buildings, as well as the intrinsic fire properties of virgin and reused timber. The findings show that the prerequisites to a high extent have changed for this building typology, making it often more suitable and safer to apply timber structures than prior to the 20th century where industrial buildings had significant fire issues. The choice between virgin and reused timber is not without importance though: conventional timber components with large cross sections have some beneficial and predictable intrinsic properties in relation to fire where reused timber components, with more complex compositions, can be less predictable and would therefore depend highly on different fire-protection systems, such as sprinkling and/or coverings