Fire Rating of Wood Columns
Fire Rating of Wood Columns
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I am looking for any information relating to a 2hr fire rating assembly around a engineered wood column.
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance
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Fire Rating of Wood Columns
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RE: Fire Rating of Wood Columns
Not sure how this is justified to US codes but it is acceptable in most countries.
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RE: Fire Rating of Wood Columns
I am trying to make the correlation between UL rated stud walls with 2 layers of 5/8” gypsum on each side, constituting a 2hr rating.
We are trying to apply this reasoning to a wood column located inside a non-rated wall. If we wrap the column in 2 layers of 5/8” gypsum shouldn’t this give us a two 2hr rating?
UL, as far as we can see, does not address wood columns and wood beams in this fashion.
We are having a hard time getting the architect to buy into this thought process.
Are we out on a island?
RE: Fire Rating of Wood Columns
I think this is exactly what you want:
http://www.awc.org/pdf/tr10.pdf