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Author
Barber, D. | Johnson, P.
Title
Hong Kong's New Performance Based Fire Safety Code: Methodology for Developing Fire Safety Objects.
Coporate
Arup Fire, Melbourne, Australia
Book or Conf
Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, 5th International Conference. Proceedings. October 6-8, 2004, Luxembourg, Almand, K.; Attlan, J. M.; D'Hoop, J. M.; Gordon, J.; Jonsson, R.; Kruppa, J., Editors, 26-35 p., 2004
Keywords
performance based codes | fire codes | fire safety | building codes | fire protection | methodology | fire statistics | risks | fire fatalities | life safety
Identifiers
Hong Kong; existing structure; performance based framework: global approaches; Nordic HierarchyL objectives set the form for all fire safety design; schematic of the performance system model (Meacham et al); linking fire safety objectives with fire protection strategies; number of fires in Hong Kong (data supplied by FSD); fire safety objectives and acceptable community risk