‘Adequacy’ in Structural Fire Safety of Tall Timber Buildings
Luke Bisby
Chair of Fire and Structures and Head of Institute for Infrastructure and Environment
University of Edinburgh
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This talk will ask the rhetorical question, “What performance is adequate as regards the response of a tall timber building in a fire?”. Beginning to answer this question requires an interrogation of the foundations of the ‘fire resistance’ design framework, standard fire testing, and fire dynamics in building compartments with exposed timber surfaces.
Prof. Luke Bisby is Head of the Research Institute for Infrastructure and Environment and holds a Personal Chair in Fire and Structures within the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He is a fellow of The Institution of Structural Engineers, The Institution of Fire Engineers, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, and The International Institute for FRPs in Construction. He is a Chartered Structural Engineer in the UK and a Licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada. Luke is a member of the UK Standing Committees on Structural Safety (SCOSS) and Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety (CROSS); he sits on a number of code committees relevant to Structural Fire Engineering of concrete, steel, and timber structures internationally; and he is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Fire Safety Journal – the official journal of the International Association for Fire Safety Science.