{"id":3124,"date":"2022-04-11T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjr.ufv.ca\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2024-04-05T11:05:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T18:05:52","slug":"fire-severity-outcome-comparison-of-apartment-buildings-constructed-from-combustible-and-non-combustible-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/2022\/04\/11\/fire-severity-outcome-comparison-of-apartment-buildings-constructed-from-combustible-and-non-combustible-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Severity Outcome Comparison of Apartment Buildings Constructed from Combustible and Non-combustible Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wood is a natural, sustainable, and economical material used for construction. It is also combustible, which causes structures constructed from wood to be perceived as less safe than structures made from non-combustible materials, such as steel and concrete. However, fire safety in residential buildings is multi-layered, and advancements in wood products and treatment, such as fire-retardant treatment and use of non-combustible cladding, have made combustible materials more fire-resistant. In addition, protective systems, such as smoke alarms and sprinklers, have increased the rate of detecting and extinguishing the fire before ignition of the building material. With these advancements, non-combustible constructions may not hold this advantage over wood any longer.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.ufv.ca%2Fcpscjr%2Ffiles%2F2022%2F04%2FCombustible-vs-Non-combustible-Report-FINAL-20220406.pdf&hl=en_US&embedded=true\" class=\"gde-frame\" style=\"width:100%; height:500px; border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<p class=\"gde-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/files\/2022\/04\/Combustible-vs-Non-combustible-Report-FINAL-20220406.pdf\" class=\"gde-link\">Download (PDF, 493KB)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wood is a natural, sustainable, and economical material used for construction. It is also combustible, which causes structures constructed from wood to be perceived as less safe than structures made from non-combustible materials, such as steel and concrete. However, fire safety in residential buildings is multi-layered, and advancements in wood products and treatment, such as &#8230; <a title=\"Fire Severity Outcome Comparison of Apartment Buildings Constructed from Combustible and Non-combustible Materials\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/2022\/04\/11\/fire-severity-outcome-comparison-of-apartment-buildings-constructed-from-combustible-and-non-combustible-materials\/\" aria-label=\"More on Fire Severity Outcome Comparison of Apartment Buildings Constructed from Combustible and Non-combustible Materials\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":3126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3203,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions\/3203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}