Sustainable Construction - Building & Construction Authority
Sustainable Construction - Building & Construction Authority
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A Guide Fire on Protection Fire Protection and Performance-based and Performance-based Fire Engineering Fire Engineering<br />
Can a building be entirely designed to performance-based solutions?<br />
Theoretically, it is possible to design a building entirely to performance-based solutions. In practice,<br />
most performance-based submissions are likely to be a hybrid of performance-based and<br />
prescriptive solutions to meet the fire safety requirements stipulated in the Fire Code.<br />
PERFORMANCE-<br />
BASED SOLUTION<br />
FIRE SAFETY<br />
REQUIREMENTS<br />
DEEMED-TO-SATISFY<br />
SOLUTION<br />
Approach to a Performance-based design<br />
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HYBRID PERFORMANCE &<br />
DEEMED-TO-SATISFY<br />
SOLUTION<br />
“Performance-based design” is a tool that can be used to look at fi re safety from a “whole building”<br />
perspective. “Performance-based design” is an engineering approach to fire safety design based<br />
on (1) established fire safety goals and objectives, (2) analysis of fire scenarios, and (3) quantitative<br />
assessment of design alternatives against the fire safety goals and objectives using engineering<br />
tools, methodologies, and performance criteria.<br />
IDENTIFY<br />
SAFETY GOALS<br />
FOR BUILDING<br />
• Life Safety<br />
• Property protection<br />
• Business continuity<br />
• Environmental<br />
protection<br />
PERFORMANCE-BASED<br />
DESIGNS<br />
ESTABLISH FIRE<br />
SCENARIOS<br />
• Types of fires from<br />
which the building<br />
is intended to<br />
provide protection<br />
SELECT FIRE<br />
PROTECTION<br />
STRATEGIES<br />
• Detection<br />
• Suppression<br />
• Egress<br />
• Fire endurance<br />
EVALUATE USING<br />
ENGINEERING<br />
TOOLS AND<br />
MODELS<br />
• Determine whether<br />
fire safety goals<br />
are met for each<br />
fire scenario
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