- Author
- Fitzgerald, R. W.
- Title
- Building Fire Performance Analysis.
- Coporate
- Worecester Polytechnic Institute, MA
- Book or Conf
- Building Fire Performance Analysis, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., Hoboken, NJ, 534 p., 2004
- Keywords
- building fires | flameproofing | fire prevention | inspection | decision making | fire barriers | multiroom fires | fire detection | fire departments | sprinklers | smoke | risks | risk management | communication networks
- Identifiers
- understanding, deciding, communicating; fire defenses; basic concepts; anatomy of building fires; a way of thinking; framework for analysis; prolog to applications; design fires; barriers and multiroom fires; barrier performance; detection and initial actions; fire service manual suppression; automatic sprinkler suppression; putting it together: the L curve; concepts in structural frame analysis; smoke analysis; building performance; risk characterizations; prevent established burning
- Abstract
- Around the world, prescriptive building codes and fire safety standards are increasingly being replaced or supplemented by performance-based standards. This book discusses the implications in the industry to provide increased design flexibility, lower costs, improved safety, and even enhanced global trade. The building fire performance evaluation procedures described in this book can be used with any code, standard, or regulatory requirements. The key feature of this publication is its aid to professionals who work in the building and other such industries to make better decisions concerning fire performance and to communicate more effectively with professionals in other disciplines working in this area.