I've only heard good feedback about the project. Once people see the building, walk around the building, and understand the building....
The problem with that building as a benchmark is that they covered up all the wood. I believe that was a huge mistake. The only incentive, from a marketplace point of view, to build buildings like this is to expose the wood. All the buildings I do globally are exposed wood. Unfortunately, Brock Commons covered it, so it's not a useful example to communicate to fire marshals from a fire point of view because it's overly conservative. It doesn't actually deal with the science.
Again, it's designed to the emotion of how people would react to a tall wood building. That will change. The next few that get built will start to shift that perspective. Certainly fire marshals who have experienced it understand it and are comfortable with it.
As far as international code goes, no country anticipated this. Even though a lot of the industry on the forest products side.... Some of the most exceptional industries are in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, and even Italy, but their codes didn't anticipate it either. If anything, we are a global leader in code advancement. The fact that we're going to get to 12 storeys by 2020 is actually.... As much as I'm critical of it, in one way I'm very proud that we are stepping up to the plate and moving the bar higher like that. We just need to take the number 12 off and allow ourselves to build tall, period. That's really where we'll end up.