- Author
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Tomasson, B.
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Bengtsson, J.
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Thorsteinsson, D.
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Karlsson, B.
- Title
- Influence of Fire Department Intervention for the Fire Safety of High-Rise Buildings.
- Coporate
- Linuhönnun Consulting Engineers, Reykjavik, Iceland
Capital District Fire and Rescue Service, Reykjavik, Iceland
Iceland Fire Authority, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Book or Conf
- Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, 7th International Conference. Sky is the Limit. Proceedings and Case Studies. April 16-18, 2008,
Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Bethesda, MD,
Auckland, New Zealand,
205-216 p.,
2008
- Keywords
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performance based codes
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fire safety
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safety engineering
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regulations
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fire departments
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high rise buildings
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architecture
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standards
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fire fighters
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stairwells
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information dissemination
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ignition
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dispatch
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time
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response time
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risk analysis
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activation time
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risks
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scenarios
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simulation
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heat release rate
- Identifiers
- complex and non-conventional architectural elements and designs; performance based design; probabilistic approach for fire design; time from ignition to fire department intervention; dispatch time, turnout time and response time - Iceland; metropolitan areas in Finland; on site activation time in high rise buildings; test of on site activation time; 19 storey building that is going to be built in downtown Reykjavik; Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA); different scenarios and the expected success rate of the firefighters according to simulations with @RiskTM; parameters in the risk analysis