- Author
- Society of Fire Protection Engineers
- Title
- Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, 7th International Conference.
- Coporate
- Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Bethesda, MD
- Sponsor
- Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Bethesda, MD Society of Fire Protection Engineers, New Zealand Society of Fire Safety, St Kilda Road, Central, Victoria International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, Sweden
- Book or Conf
- Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, 7th International Conference. Sky is the Limit. Proceedings and Case Studies. April 16-18, 2008, Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Bethesda, MD, Auckland, New Zealand, 401 p., 2008
- Keywords
- performance based codes | fire safety | safety engineering | regulations
- Identifiers
- fire safety design methods
- Abstract
- The 7th International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods will take place in Auckland, New Zealand on 16-18 April, 2008. The conference is co-sponsored by Society of Fire Protection Engineers, SFPE New Zealand Chapter Society of Fire Safety, and the International Conference for Research and Innovation in Building Construction (CIB). Since the first conference on performance-based codes and fire safety design methods was held in 1996, many countries have developed, or are in the process of developing, performance-based codes and design methods. However, use of these approaches has generally been limited to high-end projects, and the percentage of projects where performance-based design is used varies among countries. This conference will present the state-of-the-art in performance-based code approaches and engineering design methods. Papers will be presented on newly emerging technologies, as well as perspectives on approaches that have worked well and approaches that have not worked as well as originally desired. The conference will be held in New Zealand, which was one of the first countries to adopt a purely performance based Building Code. Over the last twelve years, this conference has earned a reputation among the fire protection engineering community as the pre-eminent event for information on the leading-edge technology in the areas of performance based codes and engineering design methods.