- Author
- Bukowski, R. W.
- Title
- What Every Chief Should Know About Performance-Based Codes.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Fire Chief, Vol. 40, No. 12, 34-36, December 1996
- Keywords
- codes | fire departments | performance based codes
- Identifiers
- International Code Council (ICC)
- Abstract
- Many countries have made a formal commitment to implementing performance-based codes for regulating building fire safety. England, Wales, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and Norway have performance-based regulations in place. Canada, Japan, Poland, Romania and China are actively restructing their regulations to embrace performance-based codes in the next three to five years.