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Performance-based Fire Safety Design in Hong Kong
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Tsui, Sharon |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | Presently, performance-based or fire engineering approach is normally treated as a way to seek for exemption for commercial projects by producing engineering justification report, unless for large, complex and special projects such as railway lines or airport which would be treated as an alterative way to achieve fire safety by formulating fire safety strategy report. This paper gives a brief overview on the two (prescriptive-based and performance-based) approaches to achieve fire safety, current legislative control of fire safety measures in buildings and the performance-based applications in Hong Kong. The basic performance-based design framework, which most overseas countries have adopted as the initial step for the development of engineering performance-based fire code, is described with illustrative example. Finally, the issues and challenges in the process of developing engineering performance-based fire code in the situation of Hong Kong are highlighted. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.bse.polyu.edu.hk/researchCentre/Fire_Engineering/summary_of_output/journal/IJEPBFC/V6/p.223-229.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
