- Author
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Bukowski, R. W.
- Title
- What Every Chief Should Know About Performance-Based Codes.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
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Fire Chief,
Vol. 40,
No. 12,
34-36,
December 1996
- Keywords
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codes
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fire departments
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performance based codes
- Identifiers
- International Code Council (ICC)
- Abstract
- Many countries have made a formal commitment to implementing performance-based codes for regulating building fire safety. England, Wales, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and Norway have performance-based regulations in place. Canada, Japan, Poland, Romania and China are actively restructing their regulations to embrace performance-based codes in the next three to five years.