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During the last two years a major European fire research program has been carried out on the BRE 8 storey frame built within the large scale test facility at Cardington in the UK. This paper describes the background to the work, the tests carried out, some of the results and how these are increasing our understanding of the behavior of real structures in fire. It also describes how notable features of the structural behavior which occurred during the fire tests, are identifying issues that need to be addressed both in design and further research aimed at the development of fire safety engineering.