Building Fire Performance Analysis - Hardcover

Fitzgerald, Robert W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470863269 ISBN 13: 9780470863268

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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From the Back Cover

Understanding a building's potential fire performance is necessary to compare a performance based design with an equivalent prescriptive design. Performance understanding is also necessary in the development of effective risk management solutions to unique problems.

This book describes a way to understand building fire performance and risk characterizations using an analytical framework that guides the thought process combined with evaluations of critical events. A systems framework tracks functional behavior of the fire and associated fire defenses using accepted procedures from a variety of management and risk disciplines. These procedures have been under development for over thirty years and tested with professionals from every part of the fire safety community.

The systems approach described in this book will enable an individual to move back and forth between the specific behavior of individual components and the holistic performance of the building. Examples of routine applications include:

• Technical decision making. (Are the fire defenses appropriate for my objectives, and how can I improve their performance quality?)
  • Prescriptive code equivalency documentation.
  • Performance-based design approval.
  • Fire reconstruction analysis.
• Resource management. (How can I do better with what I now have?)
  • Fire risk management and resource allocation.
  • Emergency planning.
  • Fire ground operations planning.

Building Fire Performance Analysis will be of significant interest to fire safety practitioners making day-to-day risk informed decisions. These include building code officials, fire service officers, fire safety engineers, the fire Building Fire Performance Analysis will be of significant interest to fire safety practitioners making day-to-day risk informed decisions. These include building code officials, fire service officers, fire safety engineers, the fire equipment industry, insurance inspectors and underwriters, architects and facility risk managers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0470863269
• ISBN 13: 9780470863268
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 534