British Columbia
News, highlights and more relating to this great province!
Fuck no. When did it even become 12?
I've been in a house fire. Lost everything, and it changed all of our lives. I don't want to lose everything and risk my life because one of 110 people in the building doesn't know not to smoke in bed or forgets to turn off the stove.
This ain't your home timber. This'll be rated for fires and can't burn in the same way.
This is engineered wood product. UBC campus has one of thr tallest test buildings already. Plus wood chars and protects itself, it all the chip board, fake vaneer and plastic carpet fibre that contribute to modern houses going up so fast.
wood construction can be more fire resilient that steel. If the insulation around steel beams is lost, the steel will rapidly loose strength far below its melting point, while wood has to slowly burn in from the outside to lose strength.
Obviously a monolithic concrete structure will have higher fire resistance yet, but wood isn't nearly as bad as you think it is.