- Author
- Bukowski, R. W.
- Title
- Fire Codes for Global Practice.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Progressive Architecture (P/A), 117-119, June 1995
- Keywords
- fire codes | code equivalency
- Identifiers
- performance objectives; resistance to change
- Abstract
- Architecture in a world economy, with multinational clients and a global range of building materials and systems, demands fire codes based on performance. The International Council for Building Research is now working on methods to verify compliance under performance-based fire codes. Performance codes will have several advantages: code objectives clearly stated and understood by all parties, and analytical methods, data, and assumptions formalized in a single code of practice.