37º IAHS World Congress on Housing: - Universidad de Cantabria

XXXVII <strong>IAHS</strong><strong>World</strong> <strong>Congress</strong> on HousingOctober 26 – 29, 2010, Santander, SpainCODE: 407FIRE RISK ANALYSIS IN BUILDINGSAntónio Leça Coelho i , João Paulo Correia Rodrigues iiiLaboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Lisboa, PortugaliiFaculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbrae-mail: alcoelho@lnec.ptKey words: Buldings, models, fire risk, emergency, egress.AbstractThe Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil – LNEC has launched, about 12 years ago, thedevelopment of an overall model of analysis to the fire risk in buildings.The model was formed by 11 partial models (model describing the building, model of thebuilding evacuation, model of the probability of occurrence of fire in the building, model ofdevelopment of fire in the building, model of structural safety of the building, model of firewarning and detection, model of automatic fire extinction means, model of fire brigadesassociated with the building, model of reliability of the active protection systems, model ofcost-advantage analysis, model of data management produced by the partial models).This communication is a description of the evolution of the model over these 12 years.37º <strong>IAHS</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Congress</strong> On Housing Science 199