CROSS-UK Newsletter 71

CROSS-UK Newsletter 71 has been published and includes expert comments on fire and structural safety reports.

Reports in this Newsletter cover the following:

• Fire performance of timber cladding
• Collapse of folded plate timber roof at a school
• Serious inconsistencies when installing passive fire protection
• Understanding finite element analysis for pile caps
• The stack effect and considerations for smoke control
• Painted faying surfaces leads to connections with insufficient load capacity
• Provision of water for firefighting
• Combination load cases in proprietary software cause concern
• Failure of Firefighters lift to operate
• Fire protection to structure by cavity barriers