- Author
- Kawagoe, K. | Morishita, Y.
- Title
- Present Status of Research on Fire Safety Systems for Buildings.
- Coporate
- Science Univ., Tokyo, Japan
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NBS SP 540,
- Distribution
- Available from Government Printing Office
- Book or Conf
- National Bureau of Standards. Fire Research and Safety. 3rd Joint Panel Proceedings Conference of the U.S. Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources (UJNR). March 13-17, 1978, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD, Sherald, M. A., Editors, 148-161 p., 1979
- Keywords
- fire safety | buildings
- Abstract
- An outline of the recent research conducted in Japan on fire safety systems for building is presented in this paper, which is centered on the studies done by the Committee of Fire Safety Systems founded in April 1977 in the Japanese Association of Fire Science and Engineering. The Committee of Fire Safety Systems is a committee aimed at the development of a General Evaluation System for the fire protections of buildings and is the first organized research group to conduct research of this field. In addition to the discussions that are being carried out on the method of composition of fire safety systems and the concept of safety, this committee has done studies with regards to the method of evaluation of subsystems such as the smoke control system and fire extinguishment system, etc. with several successful results.