- Author
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Lundin, J.
- Title
- Safety in Case of Fire: The Effect of Changing Regulations.
- Coporate
- Lund Univ., Sweden
- Report
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ISRN LUTVDG/TVBB-1032-SE; 1032; THESIS,
2005,
423 p.
- Keywords
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fire safety
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regulations
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performance based codes
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fire safety engineering
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fire risks
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risk analysis
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uncertainty
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verification
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sensitivity analysis
- Identifiers
- risk control; framework for controlling fire risk in buildings; methods and material employed in the thesis; risk control by specifying rules for safety output; risk control by specifying rules for safety procedures and safety case; specifying rules for direct risk control; coordination between the design and the operational phases; CFAST (Consolidated Fire growth And Smoke Transport); Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS)
- Abstract
- In this doctoral thesis some fundamental problems concerning society's ability to control the safety in buildings in the case of fire by issuing performance-based building regulations are identified and analysed. Fire protection documentation from forty-six projects was studied, together with a detailed analysis of the Swedish building regulations and an extensive risk analysis of a class of buildings. The results show that there is a lack of regulation and guidance on how to perform verification, which leads to arbitrary design decisions. It can be questioned whether the approach taken by many practitioners today is sufficient to fulfil the requirements laid out in the building regulations, that is society's demand for fire safety. Few tools are available to address these issues in a practical way. This thesis presents a procedure for verification and suggests general quality demands for verification as a means of addressing these issues.