Program Overview

Online Micro-Certificate: Fire Safety for Timber Buildings

The Faculty of Forestry’s Fire Safety for Timber Buildings Micro-Certificate is a flexible 8-week online program that provides forest product professionals, architects, engineers, fire services personnel, authorities having jurisdiction, and insurance companies opportunities to further their professional credentials on fire safety issues regarding timber construction and to enable all stakeholders to understand the different constraints and opportunities that arise from fire safety of taller timber buildings.

Program Overview

This 8-week flexible online program highlights skills and competencies relevant to fire safety of timber products in the built environment. The focus is on the needs and development of fire safety, the expression of fire safety in codified guidance and the link of that guidance to scientific concepts from fire safety research.

Program Objectives

• Understand the need, origin and development of fire safety regulations and their explicit link to timber as an urban construction material
• Articulate the core principles of the fire safety strategy for residential and commercial buildings
• Distinguish different testing regimes and their role in fire safety of timber products in buildings and within the fire safety strategy
• Identify basic theoretical concepts of fire science and their application to fire test results for wood
• Utilize codified guidance to calculate the fire resistance of timber structural products and the limits of application of those calculations

Target Audience

Applications are open to both public and private sector professionals whose work contributes to the design of timber buildings or wood products for the built environment and have demonstrated an interest and need for professional training and development on fire safety engineering and fire protection engineering requirements to design, implement, or market their products for the timber-built environment.

Employment Opportunities

• Building industry professionals (architects, structural engineers)
• Forest industry (timber product developments)
• Government (managers, planners, approvers)
• Insurance professionals

Program Details

• Duration: 8 weeks of learning
• Location: Online
• Commitment: 7-8 hours per week
• Completion Requirements: View full requirements
• Start date: October 6, 2025
• Price: $2400 (Full Certificate), $650 (Individual Courses)