31/10/2025

Efectis is one of the partners of the SEIFBois program, which is led by the FCBA Technological Institute (project management) and the laboratories Efectis and CSTB, as well as Egis and the IBC association.

The project is financially supported by the French State as part of the “France 2030”, operated by ADEME, and by the national interprofessional organisation for the forestry and wood sector (France Bois Forêt), together with CODIFAB.

This 4-year, nearly 3 million euro project aims to create and share technical and scientific knowledge on the main issues of timber construction in fire situations, in order to lift the bottlenecks to the mass construction of multi-story buildings using bio-sourced materials.

This project follows the work of the Fire Workshop of the ADIVBois association (Association for the Development of Wooden Living Buildings) between 2016 and 2022, which issued a number of technical guides to meet the needs of fire safety stakeholders with regard to regulations that are not yet adapted to the growth of timber construction, with the emergence of local doctrines from the authorities that already set precedents. Therefore, it is crucial that the recent regulatory review launched by the ministries results in the introduction of consistent, risk-appropriate requirements.

In order to fulfil these needs, the new project is structured around five themes: the behaviour of fire-exposed wood; fire resistance; propagation; façade; and feedback. These themes are broken down into around twenty technical issues.

Efectis, as an accredited laboratory in fire resistance and reaction-to-fire and a major player in fire safety engineering, is one of the main partners with the management of numerous tasks, the supervision and carrying out of many tests (compartment, fire protection solutions, self-extinguishing of exposed wood, assemblies, facade elements, etc.) and studies (laboratory and experts assessment, numerical simulations, engineering, etc.).

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