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Originally Posted by HowardL
I'm not comfortable yet with that 6-ish story IBC wood thing in Oak Park. Looks too fire-y to me.
This, while a beautiful design, looks like a death trap. Until I understand the engineering more, I am afraid of wood.
Well, not that wood. Some wood is pure Sunday morning magic.
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You can protect wood structures from fire in three ways:
1) cover the wood in fire resistant materials like doubled-up drywall, etc
2) make the wood so massive that the fire will only char the outside of the structure and doesn't cause failure (this is how timber lofts are built, and some new experimental wood high rises out of CLT)
3) install a sprinkler system to put out or control fires after they form
I'd be far more worried about fire in a wood 3-flat in Lakeview or single-family
home (which have none of these protections in place) than in a newly-built wood midrise.