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Practical Design and Performance Based Regulations

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Author

  • Per-Anders Marberg
  • Håkan Frantzich
  • Robert Jönsson
  • Johan Lundin
  • Tomas Rantatalo

Summary, in English

The paper presents a sample design of a multi-storey building with respect to the fire safety. Three design strategies are examined, a standard solution according to the requirements, a fire safety engineering design without a sprinkler system and finally a fire safety engineering design with a sprinkler system. The objective was to demonstrate different design strategies and still comply with the performance based Swedish building regulation. Mostly, only the safety to people has been considered in the design for the three cases. The use of fire safety engineering methods for the design shows that an optimised solution can be achieved with respect to both fire safety and economics.

Publishing year

1998

Language

English

Pages

33-42

Publication/Series

Fire Science and Technology

Volume

18

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Topic

  • Building Technologies
  • Other Civil Engineering

Keywords

  • Fire safety
  • Evacuation
  • Building regulation
  • Safety comparison
  • Fire safety engineering

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0285-9521