- Author
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Chapman, R. E.
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Hall, W. G.
- Title
- Code Compliance at Lower Costs: A Mathematical Programming Approach.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
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Fire Technology,
Vol. 18,
No. 1,
77-89,
February 1982
- Book or Conf
- National Fire Protection Assoc. Analytic Problems in Firesafety: Rational Firesafety Design. NFPA Research. Joint ORSA/TIMS Meeting. May 1980.,
National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy, MA,
Washington, DC,
1-17 p.,
1982
- Keywords
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standards
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nursing homes
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fire safety
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health care facilities
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hospitals
- Identifiers
- Mathematical Programming; integer programmings; building economics; economic analysis; applied economics; optimization; renovation; building codes
- Abstract
- The identification of cost-effective levels of fire safety in health care facilities is a major concern to hospital administrators, fire safety engineers and public policy makers. The prohibitive costs of strict compliance to the prescriptive provisions of the Life Safety Code in hopsitals and nursing homes has led to the development of an equivalency methodology.