- Author
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Law, M.
- Title
- Fire and Building Structures.
- Coporate
- Ove Arup Partnership, London, England
- Book or Conf
- International Conference on Flammability. INTERFLAM '85. Conference Workbook. March 26-28, 1985,
Guildford, England,
178-179 p.,
1985
- Keywords
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building construction
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escape
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occupants
- Abstract
- Forty years ago the U.K. government published a report on 'Fire Grading of Buildings'. The objects of fire precautions were stated to be'to safeguard life and property' and to this end fire grading should 'limit the development and spread of a fire in the event of an outbreak and...provide for safe exit of occupants'. It was considered that a rational and economic combination of passive and active defence measures was the ideal, but was difficult to achieve in the absence of a coordinated body of fire statistics. The report assigned notional fire load densities to different types of building.