- Author
- Koya, K. | Ohmiya, Y. | Harada, K. | Tanaka, T. | Hokugo, A. | Hagiwara, I.
- Title
- Pilot Case Study of a Performance-Based Fire Safety Design Method to a Multi-Tenant Office Building.
- Coporate
- Tokyo Gas Corp., Japan Science University of Tokyo, Japan Building Research Inst., Ibaraki, Japan Kyoto Univ., Japan Kobe Univ., Japan
- Journal
- Fire Science and Technology, Vol. 18, No. 1, 43-69, 1998
- Keywords
- office buildings | fire safety | acceptance criteria | evacuation | fire spread | atria | temperature | fire fighting | building design | life safety | smoke layers | occupants
- Identifiers
- structure of the performance based fire safety design system; design heat release rate (conceptual); typical values for fire growth rate; characteristic occupant density for the verification of evacuation safety; calculation of expected number of occupants blocked by fire adjacent to exit; verification of number of queuing evacuees in front of a doorway by a simple estimation; design features for Cases A (prescriptive solution), B1 and B2 (performance-based solutions)