Concealed cavities and voids within walls, floors, ceilings and roofs can provide a ready route for the spread of smoke and flame, bypassing fire-resisting construction, and so building regulations ...
A timber-framed housing association block in which a serious fire broke out last year was fitted with “defective” cavity barriers that “contributed nothing to control of the fire”, a report obtained ...
Welcome to building.co.uk. This site uses cookies. Read our policy. The initial technical note (TN-01/26), produced by the cross-sector committee, argues that while zero-compression cavity barriers ...