- Author
- Schaenman, P.
- Title
- Estimated Impact of the Center for Fire Research Program on the Costs of Fire.
- Coporate
- TriData Corp., Arlington, VA
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Keywords
- building codes | building design | costs | economic factors | fire detection | fire losses | fire models | fire research | fire suppression | fire tests | toxicity
- Identifiers
- automatic detection; automatic (built-in) fire suppression; safer consumer products
- Abstract
- The Center for Fire Research (CFR) has had a huge impact on reducing casualties and losses from fires. It also has helped stimulate new industries, and saved industry enormous sums by engineering fire safety better, averting business disruption, reducing liability, and in a number of other ways. The dividends of the past continue; CFR's budget essentially has been "paid" through the Year 2100 by even the most conservative estimates of its impact. This was a first, brief effort to estimate the magnitude of the CFR impact, and how it is distributed across the major components of the total cost of fire. More work is needed on virtually every aspect of the estimation procedures used here.