- Author
- Bukowski, R. W.
- Title
- How to Evaluate Alternative Designs Based on Fire Modeling.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- NFPA Journal, Vol. 89, No. 2, 68-70,72-74, March/April 1995
- Keywords
- fire models | codes | evacuation | alternative design
- Identifiers
- alternative design analysis
- Abstract
- These days, fire models are being widely used to help code officials determine whether alternative design analyses - such as those sometimes used in unique buildings or large projects - provide protection equivalent to that prescribed by existing building codes. However, many code officials faced with the application of a new engineering method in a high-profile project are uncomfortable if there is no independent verification that such analyses have been done properly.