Tall Wood Buildings – Research - The Canadian Wood Council

Studies

Second Edition ‘The Case for Tall Wood Buildings” – How Mass Timber Offers a Safe, Economical and Environmentally Friendly Alternative for Tal Building Structures, by MGA | Michael Green Architecture
“The Case for Tall Wood Buildings – How Mass Timber Offers a Safe, Economical, and Environmentally Friendly Alternative for Tall Building Structures“, by MGA ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN, Equilibrium Consulting, LMDG Ltd, and BTY Group (February 2012) (8.5 Mb)
“The Historical Development of the Building Size Limits in the National Building Code of Canada (17 Mb)
“Case Studies of Risk-to-Life due to Fire in Mid- and High-Rise, Combustible and Non-combustible Buildings Using CUrisk“, by Xia Zhang and George Hadjisophocleous of Carleton University, and Jim Mehaffey of CHM Fire Consultants Ltd. (March 2015) (2.3 Mb)
“Fire Safety Challenges of Tall Wood Buildings”, by Robert Gerard and David Barber – Arup North America Ltd; Armin Wolski, San Francisco, CA; for the National Fire Protection Association’s Fire Protection Research Foundation (December 2013)
Ontario Tall Wood Reference Guide (8.04 MB)

Final Report – Full-scale Mass Timber Shaft Demonstration Fire (including the National Research Council test report as an Appendix), by FPInnovations (April 2015)