- Author
- Narayanan, P. | Whiting, P.
- Title
- New Zealand Fire Risk Data, 1986-1993.
- Coporate
- Building Research Association of New Zealand, Judgeford
- Report
- Study Report 64, July 1996, 43 p.
- Keywords
- fire risk | fire data | building fires | fire damage | fire losses | fire departments | fire statistics | data analysis | residential buildings | apartments | office buildings | board and chare homes | schools | hotels | hospitals
- Identifiers
- New Zealand; fire risk data
- Abstract
- Traditionally, the effectiveness of fire safety protection in most countries has been presented in forms such as deaths per million population, while the cost of such protection has been shown as a percentage spent in tems of GDP and as a percentage of builidng costs. Performances of individual countries have then been compared using similar information available for other countries. The building practices (culture) and socio-economic conditions of individual countries have a significant impact on the fire risk of these countries and make the naitonal fire risk of each country unique. Percentage of GDP expenditure and percentage of building costs figures take no account of these unique features and are thus a poor basis for the assessment of risk in any individual country. An introductory research and analysis of the fire risk in some occupancies in New Zealand has been carried out. The methodology applied and the recommendations made based on the findings are included in this report.