Mass timber buildings have experienced a spike in popularity among designers and developers. Toronto has seen mass timber as the chosen sustainable material for residential and commercial projects. These projects are intended to address market demands for sustainable...
The first wave of mass timber buildings are starting to come to fruition. Toronto has seen mass timber as the chosen sustainable material for residential and commercial projects. These projects are intended to address market demands for sustainable buildings and the...
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Getting started with mass timber? Want to know more about the structural systems? This is the workshop for you! Come by and meet our Vortex Fire team and learn more from our Building Code Consultants about how we can help with your mass timber projects! We are the...
Highlights of some of the recent OBC changes that came into effect on 01 January, 2020. Happy to walk you through it. Give us a call!
Hello Manitoba! We are very excited to announce our expansion into Manitoba! We look forward to assisting our existing clients and creating new long term partnerships from our Vortex Fire office in Winnipeg. From building code and fire safety engineering services, we...
National Building Code of Canada – Part 9 Webinar For the third year in a row, Vortex Fire Consulting Inc. will present a webinar on Part 9 of the National Building Code as part of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) Emergent Practitioners education...
Toronto Mass Timber Construction Mass timber buildings have experienced a spike in popularity among designers and developers in Toronto. As of August 2020, there are over 20 mass timber buildings at various stages of development in Toronto and Greater Toronto Area....
Tall wood case study—The Wade Avenue experiment This seminar will examine the technical challenges and solutions for 77 Wade Avenue, Ontario’s first tall-wood building approved using the Alternative Solution evaluation process that falls within the objective-based...
A Monte Carlo-based probabilistic barrier failure model for arbitrary fire environment Failure of building assemblies is a combined result of both heat attack and the mechanical response of the assembly components. Xiao Li recently published a paper in fire...