CROSS Safety Report: Design responsibility for timber frame houses and apartments

Kate Wise discusses how recent disruptions to supply chains, triggered by Brexit and global tariff changes, are impacting imports of construction materials – particularly timber – to the UK.

This month's report concerns durability issues with engineered timber due to water ingress or condensation issues. Engineered timber appears to disintegrate more quickly than conventional timber, resulting in structural failure rather than distortion.

This month we present a report concerning multistorey cross-laminated timber buildings and their risk of collapse during a fire.