IRCC

Increasing use of timber in larger buildings - challenges for regulators and industry

Multi-storey timber houses in Austria :State of the art and current research results

– Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Martin Teibinger,
Holz Forschung Austria

Multi-storey construction in wood in Sweden

– Per-Erik Eriksson,
SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden

Multi-storey timber construction in the UK

– Dr Julie Bregulla,
   Dipl-Ing, PhD, CEng, FICE
   Building Research Establishment,
   UK

Back to the Future - Forte Apartment Building - Docklands Melbourne

– Neil Savery,
General Manager
Australian Building Codes Board

Short report about 6 to 9-storey timber buildings in Switzerland and Italy

– Dr. Andrea Bernasconi,
The University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland

Timber structures and fire safety philosophy Development and recent approaches in the perspective of building regulations, standards and codes of practice in Norway

– Nils E. Forsen,
   Multiconsult AS
   The Oslo School of Architecture and Design,
   Norway

Code change proposals and research on mid-rise wood frame construction in Canada

– Guy Gosselin,
Director Building Regulations
National Research Council of Canada,Canada

Performance based requirements for multi-storey timber buildings - the actual building regulations in Germany in comparison with realised projects

– Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Winter,
   Timber Structures and Building Construction
   Technische Universitat Munchen,
   Germany

Fire performance concerns of lightweight engineering lumber systems

– Brian J. Meacham, PhD, PE, FSFPE
   Associate Professor
   Fire Protection Engineering
   Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
   USA

Full-scale fire tests of wooden 3-story school building

– Tomohiro Naruse,
   Head, Fire Standards Division,
   Building Department    National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management & MLIT,
   Japan

Attempt for a new systematic for modern timber construction and realized examples

– Hermann Kaufmann,
Architect, Austria