Integration of fire safety and building design

A new framework is presented to facilitate better incorporation of building fire safety performance options into the building design process. Based on the building design process and key design decisions undertaken at each phase, a knowledge set is developed to aid building designers to understand b...

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Published in:Building research and information : the international journal of research, development and demonstration development and demonstration, 2014-11, Vol.42 (6), p.696-709
Main Authors: Park, Haejun, Meacham, Brian J., Dembsey, Nicholas A., Goulthorpe, Mark
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Balancing
Building construction
building design
Building infrastructure
Buildings
Construction
Construction equipment
Decisions
design development
Design of buildings
design process
fire safety
Fires
performance assessment
performance-based
Safety
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Summary:A new framework is presented to facilitate better incorporation of building fire safety performance options into the building design process. Based on the building design process and key design decisions undertaken at each phase, a knowledge set is developed to aid building designers to understand better the effects of design decisions on building fire performance. This also minimizes potential competing objectives in later design phases by sharing necessary concerns in advance. Drawing on the knowledge set, a conceptual building fire safety evaluation tool illustrates how primary building designers and fire safety engineers can quantitatively assess fire safety performance for different solutions. It is shown how building fire safety performance attributes can be arranged by building design phase, how various scenarios can be explored, and how appropriately balanced building design and fire safety design solutions can be identified at different phases of the building design process.
ISSN:0961-3218
1466-4321
DOI:10.1080/09613218.2014.913452