NORWALK — The multi-story apartment buildings springing up across Norwalk have alarms, sprinkler systems and other features aimed at preventing fires from spreading. But like many single-family ...

Type V Construction: Wood Frame-These structures contain walls, floors, roofs, and other structural members are made up entirely of wood. Wood is the primary load bearing material within the ...

Type III and type V: wood construction. In Type III wood construction, the exterior walls are not combustible and the interior building elements can be of any material permitted by the IBC.

In addition to the Waltham apartment buildings, the resolution states “buildings of this type of construction have been involved in major conflagrations in Los Angeles, North Carolina and ...

A five-alarm fire at a wood-framed apartment building under construction in College Park, Md., has renewed calls to regulate “light-framed, combustible, podium construction,” known as Type V ...