designTimber - Working with a Fire Engineer

In this webinar, we 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) provide insights into their work, with a particular focus on 36-38 Berkeley Square, a new 9-storey timber office building. 36-38 Berkeley Square features a hybrid steel and exposed CLT frame with exposed timber floors and soffits. It will provide 85,000 sq ft of office space over nine-storeys with floor plates of up to 11,000 sq ft, and 9,000 sq ft of retail/gallery space at ground and lower ground floors, with an additional 7,000 sq ft 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. Speakers: Alastair Crossley – Associate Fire Engineer, The Fire Surgery Joachim Schmid – CEO, Ignis Andrew Nicholson – Director, The Fire Surgery Michael Klippel – Managing Partner, Ignis