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WFS 2020: Wood & Fire Safety pp 275–280Cite as

Proposal of Changes in Fire Safety Assessment for Extending the Usability of Wood in Buildings

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Structural wood and wood-based materials have gone through a major development in recent years in terms of their properties and together with the development of active elements of fire safety there is new room for adjustment of existing fire design approaches of wooden buildings. This article presents a list of technical fire safety conditions associated with designing timber structures and buildings and analyses existing barriers in utilizing timber as a construction material in terms of fire safety. The aim of this article is to propose changes in assessment of fire safety design with regards to possible risks and limitations associated with specifics of timber construction and aims towards a possible recommendation for changes and an increase of the amount of timber construction.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the project of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic No. VI 20162019034 “Research and development of validated models of fire and evacuation and their practical application in fire safety of buildings”.

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  1. VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Lumírova 13, Ostrava – Vyškovice, Czech Republic

    Petr Kučera, Isabela Bradáčová, Jiří Pokorný & Tereza Česelská

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Correspondence to Petr Kučera .

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  1. Department of Fire Engineering, Faculty of Security Engineering, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia

    Linda Makovicka Osvaldova

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

    Frank Markert

  3. USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI, USA

    Samuel L. Zelinka

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Kučera, P., Bradáčová, I., Pokorný, J., Česelská, T. (2020). Proposal of Changes in Fire Safety Assessment for Extending the Usability of Wood in Buildings. In: Makovicka Osvaldova, L., Markert, F., Zelinka, S. (eds) Wood & Fire Safety. WFS 2020. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41235-7_41

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