- Author
- Ondrus, J.
- Title
- Fire Spread and Fire Development in Low-Rise Residential Building Areas. (Abstract in English)
- Coporate
- Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Report
- LUTVDG/TVBB-88/3043, 1988, 140 p.
- Keywords
- fire spread | residential buildings | building fires | fire damage
- Abstract
- This investigation makes a survey of the spread of fire and the fire development in low-rise residential building areas through obtaining the literal knowledge of factors having influence on a fire in one burning building and fire spread between buildings within a group of single-family houses. The purpose of the investigation was, on basis of the knowledge, to propose improved measures and the character and extent of continuing research work. The investigation shows that the statistical value on occured fires in low-rise residential buildings has not increased very strongly in spite of the fact that the number of building areas with low-rise residential houses and with narrow streets had increased. According to statistical figures from 1985 there are about 1.8 million dwellings in low-rise residential buildings in Sweden. The number of fire damages in low-rise residential buildings announced to insurance companies were in 1975 4,100 and 4,700 in 1985 respectively. The comparative figure for fire damages in other types of dwellings were 9,000 in both 1975 and 1985. The total of damaged buildings, with the quota limit 500,000 Swedish krowns and more, had between 1975 and 1986 cost less than 12% of all compensation costs each year.