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24 May 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief spoken segment, the speaker defines mass timber as a construction type recognized in building codes under the heavy‑timber classification. The definition hinges on fire performance: mass timber is a massive wood product that chars predictably, providing a reliable fire strategy. This contrasts with light‑frame wood, which in its bare state behaves like kindling and therefore requires additional fire protection such as sheetrock encapsulation to form a fire assembly. The speaker emphasizes that mass timber’s primary advantage is its inherent fire strategy, rooted in its predictable charring behavior.

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Mass timber, right now it's more in the traditional, what we call heavy timber classification, because mass timber is a new way, a construction type in the codes. Like literally it means that it's massive wood and that is primarily a fire definition saying that this burns in a very predictable way and chars, the material chars in a different way, which is different than if we were to do light frame wood and we have to use sheetrock for encapsulation to create the fire assembly and so forth. In its bare state, that would burn more like kindling. Versus mass over— so it's an actual fire strategy first.