- Author
- Davis, S.
- Title
- Fire Fighting Water: A Review of Fire Fighting Requirements a New Zealand Perspective.
- Coporate
- University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Report
- Fire Engineering Research Report 00/3, March 2000, 107 p.
- Distribution
- For more information contact: School of Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand. Telephone: 643-364-2250, Fax: 643-364-2758, Website: http://www.civil.canterbury.ac.nz
- Keywords
- fire fighting | water | building design | fire departments | water supply | costs | performance based codes | fire protection engineering | legislation | extinguishing | methodology | fire spread
- Abstract
- This paper seeks to identify a linkage between the requirements for fire fighting water and building design, This paper reviews existing methods to calculate fire fighting water requirements and comments on their applicability in the context of fire service tactics. Defining what constitutes an adequate supply of water for fire fighting is also central to planning fire service operations. The provision of water for fire fighting operations is a significant infrastructure cost borne by the community as the fire fighting requirements dominates the sizing of the network elements. This paper reviews work undertaken to date and seeks to offer a methodology that supports the fire engineering approach being adopted in performance based building codes.