This report contains a database of fire incidents to investigate the fire safety of timber buildings under construction. A literature review of technical reports and newspapers was undertaken to fill this database with occurred fire incidents. The main causes and consequences of fire incidents in timber buildings under construction were discovered and illustrated. Parallel work was conducted to create an overview of guidelines, norms and laws to establish the European and Western state-of-the art in the matter of fire safety of timber buildings under construction. The current regulations in many European and Western countries have been gathered, summarised and compared. Finally, recommendations were developed to help the future design of fire safety measures for the construction phase of timber buildings. Recommendations were drawn from the results of the fire incidents analysis and the guidelines review. Each proposed measure was analysed and graded thanks to a qualitative, subjective costbenefit-analysis. Some measures resulted as extremely more efficient than others. However, it is shown that the efficiency-grade is a limited criterion on which the choice of the measures to be applied can be grounded. Generally, the proposed recommendations are a valid basis in the prospective of the creation of a European guideline on fire safety of timber buildings under construction.