| Download | - View accepted manuscript: How to use fire risk assessment tools to evaluate performance-based designs (PDF, 345 KiB)
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| Author | Search for: Bénichou, N.1; Search for: Kashef, A.1 |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Research in Construction
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Conference | CIB 2004, World Building Congress: 02 May 2004, Toronto, Ontario |
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| Subject | Risk/cost assessment |
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| Abstract | Performance-based regulations allow the designers and building officials the freedom to come up with innovative designs that will provide a level of safety that satisfies the objectives established by the regulations. Such innovative designs often lead to lower fire protection costs. The implementation of performance-based building regulations can be facilitated by the development of engineering tools that can help assess the overall fire safety performance of a building. This paper presents two fire risk assessment models, FIERAsystem and FiRECAM, which can be used as equivalency and performance-compliance design tools for cost-effective fire safety designs. The paper also describes two case studies using these tools in order to demonstrate their utility in evaluating performance-based designs. |
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| Publication date | 2004-05-01 |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| NRC number | NRCC 38456
NRC-IRC-15317 |
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| NPARC number | 20378517 |
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| Export citation | Export as RIS |
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| Record identifier | d00d99ce-067e-454b-bf8f-f64375bd39b3 |
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| Record created | 2012-07-24 |
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| Record modified | 2020-04-17 |
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