- Author
-
deVos, P.
- Title
- Translation to a Performance Based Fire Safety Code in a Developing Country Such as South Africa.
- Coporate
- CSIR, South Africa
- Book or Conf
- Pacific Rim Conference and Second (2nd) International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods. Proceedings. International Code Council and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE). May 3-9, 1998,
International Code Council, Birmingham, AL,
Maui, HI,
111-123 p.,
1998
- Keywords
-
performance based codes
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fire safety
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fire codes
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regulations
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evaluation
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statistics
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housing
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habitability
- Identifiers
- requirement for performance-based fire code; proposed performance-based fire code; scope of the proposed fire code; some of the crime statistics in South Africa (average 1994 to 1996); cultural diversity; proposed layout of informal housing infrastructure to address fire suppression