Some Issues on the Use of Performance-Based Fire Engineering Design for Buildings
Traditionally, buildings are designed in accordance with prescriptive building and fire codes. Nowadays, some building designers perceive that the prescriptive rules may be too rigid to allow the flexibility for the design, especially for buildings of complex setting. In addition, some are also of the opinion that prescriptive requirements, which control individual fire safety attributes, may not secure holistically the safety in huge complex buildings. The demand for using performance approach for designing building of complex setting is increasing. In the recent decade, many countries have introduced performance-based fire codes in the building control regime. Designers are not necessarily required to follow the prescriptive rules provided that the fire safety level of the building can be demonstrated. In order to support the use of performance-based fire engineering design, many researchers have, in the recent years, revealed the issues and developed techniques for the implementation of performance-based design. The technical approach, the rationale behind the technical requirements, the establishment of mathematical fire and evacuation models, and etc have well discussed in many international conferences, journals and reports. However, the problems arising from the use of performance-based approach for fire safety design in practice has not been widely addressed. Hong Kong has explicitly allowed the use of alternative fire safety design for over 10 years. This article provides a brief view of the issues on the use of performance-based fire safety design in buildings on the basis of Hong Kong experience.
Performance-based fire code building control
SM Lo KK Yuen M Liu
Department of Building and Construction,City University of Hong Kong
国际会议
2009 International Symposium on Fire Science and Fire-Protection Engineering(2009火灾科学与消防工程国际学术会议)
北京
英文
290-296
2009-10-17（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）