- 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 | fire safety | fire codes | regulations | evaluation | statistics | housing | 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