- Author
- Nystedt, F. | Rantatalo, T.
- Title
- Redefining Fire Safety in Swedish High-Rise Buildings.
- Coporate
- Wuz risk consultancy AB, SE-244 22 Kavlinge, Sweden Fire Safety Design AB, 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, 289-300 p., 2008
- Keywords
- performance based codes | fire safety | safety engineering | regulations | high rise buildings | escape means | rescue | building codes | office buildings | residential buildings | design applications | building design | costs | fire spread | smoke spread | fire departments | scenarios | design fires | barriers | evacuation | human behavior | fire resistance ratings | verification | containment
- Identifiers
- Swedish high-rise experience; Turning Torso - 54 story office and residential building, Malmoe, Sweden; Kista Science Tower - 31 story office building, outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden; design challenges; preventing the spread of smoke and fire and assuring structural integrity; fire service intervention; barrier concept in high-rise buildings; "defend in depth" principle and the corresponding lines of defence for fire safety; developing fire safety design solutions