- Author
- Nelson, H. E. | Shibe, A. J. | Levin, B. M. | Thorne, S. D. | Cooper, L. Y.
- Title
- Fire Safety Evaluation System for National Park Service Overnight Accommodations.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- National Park Service, Washington, DC
- Report
- NBSIR 84-2896, September 1984, 101 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- atria | building construction | fire safety | fire safety evaluation system | hotels | NFPA 101 | residential buildings | smoke
- Identifiers
- FSES
- Abstract
- A fire safety evaluation system for overnight accommodations has been developed and is ready for use in evaluating the fire safety of National Park Service residential accommodations. The system can be used to determine combinations of widely accepted fire safety equipment and building construction features that provide a level of safety equivalent to that required by the widely accepted Life Safety Code of the National Fire Protection Association. The system will provide flexibility in meeting fire safety requirements for both the renovations of existing facilities and the design of new facilities. An approach for controlling smoke from fires in atrium-like arrangements is presented and documented in an appendix. It can be used to determine smoke (exhaust) fan capacity and placement. It is based on the physics of the buoyant hot gas plume produced by the fire.