- Author
- Ramsay, G. C. | Horasan, M. B. N. | Taylor, P. T.
- Title
- Does Performance Based Fire Engineering Lead to Safer Designs for Hospitals.
- Coporate
- AGAL, Melbourne, Australia
- Book or Conf
- International Conference on Fire Research and Engineering (ICFRE3), Third (3rd). Proceedings. Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). October 4-8, 1999, Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, 123-134 p., 1999
- Keywords
- fire research | fire protection engineering | hospitals | building codes | health care facilities | occupants | life safety | evacuation | performance based codes | sprinklers | smoke hazards | compartments | fire safety | safety engineering
- Identifiers
- Building Code of Australia (BCA); hospital ward floor; relationship between evacuation times and the staff and patient numbers