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Author
Ho, D. C. W. | Lo, S. M. | Yiu, C. Y. | Cheng, W. Y. | To, M. Y.
Title
Building Official's Perception on the Use of Performance-Based Fire Engineering Approach in building Design: A Second Stage Study.
Coporate
University of Hong Kong, China City University of Hong Kong, China
Journal
International Journal on Engineering Performance-Based Fire Codes, Vol. 4, No. 4, 119-126, Winter 2002
Keywords
building design | fire protection engineering | methodology | surveys | fire models | computer models | performance based codes | training
Identifiers
summary of findings of surveys conducted in 1999 and 2002; years of experience vs ability of understanding fire engineering principles and theories; comfort in using fire models vs adequacy of existing fire models; survey of the performance-based fire engineering approach