- Author
- Tomasson, B. | Bengtsson, J. | Thorsteinsson, D. | Karlsson, B.
- Title
- Influence of Fire Department Intervention for the Fire Safety of High-Rise Buildings.
- Coporate
- Linuhönnun Consulting Engineers, Reykjavik, Iceland Capital District Fire and Rescue Service, Reykjavik, Iceland Iceland Fire Authority, Reykjavik, Iceland
- 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, 205-216 p., 2008
- Keywords
- performance based codes | fire safety | safety engineering | regulations | fire departments | high rise buildings | architecture | standards | fire fighters | stairwells | information dissemination | ignition | dispatch | time | response time | risk analysis | activation time | risks | scenarios | simulation | heat release rate
- Identifiers
- complex and non-conventional architectural elements and designs; performance based design; probabilistic approach for fire design; time from ignition to fire department intervention; dispatch time, turnout time and response time - Iceland; metropolitan areas in Finland; on site activation time in high rise buildings; test of on site activation time; 19 storey building that is going to be built in downtown Reykjavik; Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA); different scenarios and the expected success rate of the firefighters according to simulations with @RiskTM; parameters in the risk analysis