Join Timber Development UK for a bonus session – an addition to our 2024 series of design Timber webinars. In this webinar, we will hear from leading fire engineers discussing their role in relation to timber and fire safety.

Andrew Nicholson and Alastair Crossley (Director and Associate Fire Engineer at The Fire Surgery) and Michael Klippel (Managing Partner, Ignis) will be providing insights into their work, with a particular focus on 36-38 Berkeley Square, a new 9-storey timber office building.

Date: Wednesday 9 October 2024

Time: 13.00 – 14.00 pm

Location: Online

36-38 Berkeley square features a hybrid steel and exposed cross-laminated timber (CLT) frame with exposed timber floors and soffits. It will provide 85,000 square feet of office space over nine-storeys with floor plates of up to 11,000 square feet, and 9,000 square feet of retail/gallery space at ground and lower ground floors, with an additional 7,000 square feet of terrace gardens.

The project team chose to adopt a first principles, ‘deterministic’ approach to proving fire performance, based on detailed calculations and a focus on upfront design. This involved proving the timber surfaces would auto-extinguish without loss of stability or fire compartmentation. The final design was evidenced and endorsed by The Fire Surgery using extensive test data.

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