Fire safety used to sit somewhere near the edge of architectural thinking. It was addressed, documented, approved, and then quietly filed away while design decisions moved on. That approach no longer ...

While no building is truly fireproof, construction materials and systems can make a building fire safe. Fire-resistive construction gives time to discover a fire, suppress it before it spreads and ...

Wood construction offers economic, performance and environmental advantages not typically found with other structural materials. Wood is cost effective, versatile and adaptable. It’s renewable and has ...

DENVER, CO — Auralex Acoustics, Inc., the industry leader in innovative sound control solutions, announces that its pArtScience SpaceArray and SpaceCoupler have recently passed the requirements of a ...

NORclad is a provider of fire-rated timber cladding to commercial and residential customers NTG was created after four timber related acquisitions by Cairngorm The acquisition aligns with NTG’s ...

Engine 29 (E-29) arrived to find medium smoke showing on the first floor of a six-story heavy timber building. (The 750-foot-long by 175-foot-deep building covered an entire city block.) The ...

Firefighters and fire chiefs: Forget everything you know about wood construction. Tall wood buildings (TWB)—or more accurately tall mass timber buildings—are not the conventional, lightweight wood, ...