A study conducted by two fucking industry trade groups and the USDA Forest Products lab?
> FPInnovations is a private not-for-profit R&D organization that specializes in the creation of solutions that accelerate the growth of the Canadian forest sector and its affiliated industries to enhance their global competitiveness
Did you read the fucking introduction? It's an industry-paid-for shill study:
> Financial support for the development of this US edition of the CLT Handbook was provided by
the Bi-National Softwood Council, US Forest Products Laboratory and Forest Innovation
Investment. Financial support for conducting the fire resistance test series on cross-laminated
timber (CLT) was provided by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) under the Transformative
Technologies Program, which was created to identify and accelerate the development and
introduction of products such as CLT in North America. FPInnovations expresses its thanks to its industry members Julie Frappier, Eng. from Nordic
Engineered Wood and Andre Morf from Structurlam, Dr. Nourredine Bénichou of the National
Research Council of Canada, NRCan (Canadian Forest Service), the Provinces of British
Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Yukon Territory for their continuing guidance and financial
support.
I guess it must be the steel industry planting astroturfers in reddit comments pretending to be firefighters talking about how they're seeing new construction buildings with engineered structural wood fold stunningly fast, huh?
Don't be a dick. Since you're clearly not going to do your own research and will simply accuse people of disagreeing with you of being industry shills, here are some more articles discussing non-industry studies that show you're full of hot air:
https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/collegeofforestry/2018/03/27/p... (demonstrating that charred CLT can maintain structural integrity at temperatures that could cause steel structures to soften and collapse. Or in other words, that steel structures can be less safe in the event of a fire than a wood structure.
