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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...