Timber Fire Engineering

At Carbon Fire Engineering, we boast extensive and unparalleled expertise in delivering innovative design solutions for mass timber buildings. Our experience extends throughout Australia involving a diverse array of timber projects across all building sectors, most notably being commercial, education, residential, hotel, and childcare.

The appropriate analysis of timber structures in fire should evaluate all components of a building’s fire safety strategy in order to determine the appropriate mitigation measures necessary to address the hazard imparted due to the combustible nature of timber. In order to adequately analyse a timber buildings response to fire the fire engineer must possess a very strong understanding of fire science and fire dynamics, combustion processes and structural behaviour. Due to the dynamic nature of fire and the variability in how timber can contribute to the fire event throughout different stages, a strong fundamental knowledge across all areas of fire engineering practice is necessary to develop an appropriate fire safety strategy for timber buildings.

The Directors at Carbon Fire Engineering have post graduate qualifications in the study of fire performance of timber structures in fire. Their expertise has resulted in involvement across a number of mass timber working groups, standard committees and international design guides. With multiple publications on the fire performance of mass timber structures, and a wealth of experience in delivering practical solutions based on strong academic fundamentals, the team at Carbon Fire Engineering provides cutting-edge timber design solutions which embodies engineering excellence.

Australia’s modern construction industry (and the consultants that operate within it) has recently come under intense scrutiny due to a number of significant fire events worldwide. The key question of competence in practice is now being raised over any project which is perceived as higher risk than a standard code-compliant design. Mass timber buildings are often considered one of the highest risk typologies due to the combustible nature of timber. An appropriate fire safety strategy delivered by competent professionals is paramount to the success of the project.

The Directors at Carbon Fire Engineering are recognised industry leaders in the design and implementation of mass timber buildings for fire safety, and their wealth of experience has led to a high regard from both approval authorities and fire brigades alike throughout Australia. Over their careers the Directors of Carbon Fire Engineering have developed fire safety strategies for over 50 different major building projects.