Fire Safety of Historical Buildings

Fire Safety of Historical Buildings
Author: Gabriele Bernardini
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2017-04-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319557440

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This book applies a behavioral point of view to individuals’ fire safety in historic buildings. It outlines theoretical and operative issues, based on recent studies and international guidelines. Firstly, critical issues for Building Heritage fire safety are widely discussed, by including the modelling of human factor and man-environment-fire interference in these architectural spaces. A significant part of the book includes a discussion on emergency modeling and simulation. A source code for representing the fire evacuation process (including man-evacuation facilities interactions) is offered to the reader. Methods for effectiveness assessment of risk-reducing solutions are provided and tested in a case-study. Being a structured approach to occupants-related problems during a fire in heritage buildings, it offers an innovative methodology and practical examples that researchers and designers can use as a guide when proposing and testing solutions. Evaluation indexes for effectiveness assessment (also useful for future guidelines or handbooks) are included. Readers are encouraged to understand these indexes within the proposed approach, so as to extend their applications and possibilities of how to introduce human behaviors-based solutions in other fields. Lastly, attention is focused on the proposal and evaluation of low-impact and not-invasive strategies, such as ones based on wayfinding elements. From this point of view, the pros and cons of wayfinding systems are discussed: these are important today, especially for fire-safety designers, because of the ongoing innovations in this field.

Heritage Under Fire

Heritage Under Fire
Author: Stewart Kidd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1995
Genre: Fire prevention
ISBN: 9780902167469

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Heritage Under Fire

Heritage Under Fire
Author: United Kingdom Working Party on Fire Safety in Historic Buildings
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1991
Genre: Buildings
ISBN: 9780902167940

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Protecting Our Heritage

Protecting Our Heritage
Author: National Fire Protection Association. Committee on Libraries, Museums, and Historic Buildings
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1576
Release: 1948
Genre: Historic buildings
ISBN:

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Protecting Our Heritage

Protecting Our Heritage
Author: Museums National Fire Protection Association. Committee on Libraries (and Historic Buildings)
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1970
Genre:
ISBN:

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Fire Safety in Historic Buildings

Fire Safety in Historic Buildings
Author: John Morton Watts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Fire prevention
ISBN: 9780891335863

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Protecting Our Heritage

Protecting Our Heritage
Author: National Fire Protection Association. Committee on Libraries, Museums, and Historic Buildings
Publisher:
Total Pages: 39
Release: 1970
Genre: Historic buildings
ISBN:

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Fire Safety for Very Tall Buildings

Fire Safety for Very Tall Buildings
Author: International Code Council
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2021-10-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030790142

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This Guide provides information on special topics that affect the fire safety performance of very tall buildings, their occupants and first responders during a fire. This Guide addresses these topics as part of the overall building design process using performance-based fire protection engineering concepts as described in the SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance Based Fire Protection. This Guide is not intended to be a recommended practice or a document that is suitable for adoption as a code. The Guide pertains to “super tall,” “very tall” and “tall” buildings. Throughout this Guide, all such buildings are called “very tall buildings.” These buildings are characterized by heights that impose fire protection challenges; they require special attention beyond the protection features typically provided by traditional fire protection methods. This Guide does not establish a definition of buildings that fall within the scope of this document.