- Author
- Notarianni, K. A. | Fischbeck, P. S.
- Title
- Dealing With Uncertainty to Improve Regulation.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
- Distribution
- For more information contact: 48-page summary report and a 255 page proceedings can be found/downloaded at Website: http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/Fire/Conf/
- Book or Conf
- Fire Safety Design in the 21st Century, Second (2nd) Conference. Pre-Conference Papers. Proceedings. Worcester Polytechnic Institute. June 9-11, 1999, Worcester, MA, 121-133 p., 1999
- Keywords
- fire safety | performance based codes | fire codes | building codes | fire protection | regulations | uncertainty | human behavior | risk assessment | decision making
- Abstract
- It is the thesis of this paper that current efforts in fire-safety design comprise a necessary set of actions to enable the shift from prescriptive codes to performance codes, but not a sufficient set of actions to provide for the sound implementation of a performance-based system. Such a system needs to provide all stakeholders a known level of confidence in the final design and to ensure the life-cycle safety of a building. This paper discusses five related issues: 1) barriers to sound implementation and rapid depolyment of performance-based standards, 2) the role for uncertainty in improving performance-based regulations, 3) difficulties with uncertainty analyses associated with performance-based evaluation, 4) a taxonomy of uncertainties; and 5) a methodology for dealing with these uncertainties.