Mass timber, mass potential
Mass timber can significantly reduce the built environment’s carbon footprint.
It’s a renewable resource that can store carbon. It can also create beautiful, functional, and sustainable buildings. But its adoption in large-scale commercial construction, particularly in the UK, has been slow.
That’s why we’re launching the Commercial Timber Guidebook.
What is it?
It is a technical resource to address insurance challenges for mass timber buildings, focusing on durability and fire safety.
It provides guidance for various stakeholders, including insurers, asset owners, designers, and developers, to enhance the insurability and safety of these structures.
The Bridge
The Commercial Timber Guidebook works alongside the Mass Timber Insurance Playbook (MTIP) by providing technical guidance to address key risks like durability and fire safety.
Together these documents serve as a bridge between the real estate sector's risk management guidance and guidance to communicate the insurance sector's view on risk.
What’s in it?
The CTG is divided into three sections:
- Mass Timber Background
- Technical Guidance
- Illustrative Examples, context for mass timber and strategies
for addressing key challenges
Each chapter starts with an executive summary to allow readers from different backgrounds to quickly understand the essential concepts.
The two main challenges addressed are durability and fire safety, focusing on timber’s susceptibility to moisture and fire. The guidance covers technical background and proposed principles.
Who produced it?
The core team
Elliott Wood
Waugh Thistleton Architects
OFR
Lignum Risk Partners Ltd
Funding and collaboration
Timber Development UK
Built by Nature
BEAM
British Land
Derwent London
Hines
Landsec
Lendlease
Muse
Related Argent
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