Fire Risk Analysis and Optimization of Fire Prevention Management for Green Building Design and High Rise Buildings: Hong Kong Experience

Abstract There are many iconic high rise buildings in Hong Kong, for example, International Commercial Centre, International Financial Centre, etc. Fire safety issue in high rise buildings has been raised by local fire professionals in terms of occupant evacuation, means of fire-fighting by fire fighters, sprinkler systems to automatically put off fires in buildings, etc. Fire risk becomes an important issue in building fire safety because it relates to life safety of building occupants where they live and work in high rise buildings in Hong Kong. The aim of this research is to identify the fire risk for different types of high rise buildings in Hong Kong and to optimise the fire prevention management for those high rise buildings with higher level of fire risk and to validate the model and also to carry out the study of the conflict between the current fire safety building code and the current trend of green building design. Survey via the 7-point scale questionnaire was conducted through 50 participants and their responses were received and analysed via the statistical tool SPSS software computer program. A number of statistical methods of testing for significantly difference in samples were adopted to carry out the analysis of the data received. When the statistical analysis was completed, the results of the data analysis were validated by two Fire Safety Experts in this area of specialisation and also by quantitative fire risk analysis.

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Green building design and management in Hong Kong : reactive to government environmental policies or proactive in protecting the environment?

10.5353/th_b4500866 ◽

2006 ◽

Author(s):

Wai-yi, Bernice Mak

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Green Building ◽

Building Design ◽

Environmental Policies ◽

Green Building Design

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Analysis and Discussion on the Design of Green Super High-rise Civil Buildings in Huangshan

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/201913603025 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 136 ◽

pp. 03025

Author(s):

Liu Jun ◽

Zhang Jinfeng ◽

Tu Qian ◽

Hu Haowei ◽

Shui Taotao

Keyword(s):

Construction Industry ◽

Architectural Design ◽

Green Building ◽

Building Design ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Urbanization Process ◽

Green Building Design ◽

High Rise ◽

Low Carbon City

With the accelerating urbanization process and the development of the construction industry, the role of green building design in architectural design is constantly reflected. The comprehensive implementation of green building is an important measure to promote China's energy-saving emission reduction and low-carbon city strategy. However, there are relatively few cases in which green building design is applied to super high-rise civil buildings, and in-depth research and data analysis must be carried out. The design points in green super high-rise civil buildings in Huangshan area were briefly summarized, and the actual cases of a green super high-rise civil building design in Huangshan City were analyzed, which is conducive to laying the foundation for the application of green building design to super high-rise civil buildings.

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Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analyses of Human and Organizational Risks in Fire Safety Systems for High-Rise Residential Buildings with Probabilistic T-H-O-Risk Methodology

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11062590 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 2590

Author(s):

Samson Tan ◽

Darryl Weinert ◽

Paul Joseph ◽

Khalid Moinuddin

Keyword(s):

Fire Safety ◽

Residential Buildings ◽

Fire Risk ◽

Regulatory Regime ◽

High Rise ◽

Fire Engineering ◽

Verification Methods ◽

Uncertainty Analyses ◽

Risk Methodology ◽

Probabilistic Risk

Given that existing fire risk models often ignore human and organizational errors (HOEs) ultimately leading to underestimation of risks by as much as 80%, this study employs a technical-human-organizational risk (T-H-O-Risk) methodology to address knowledge gaps in current state-of-the-art probabilistic risk analysis (PRA) for high-rise residential buildings with the following goals: (1) Develop an improved PRA methodology to address concerns that deterministic, fire engineering approaches significantly underestimate safety levels that lead to inaccurate fire safety levels. (2) Enhance existing fire safety verification methods by incorporating probabilistic risk approach and HOEs for (i) a more inclusive view of risk, and (ii) to overcome the deterministic nature of current verification methods. (3) Perform comprehensive sensitivity and uncertainty analyses to address uncertainties in numerical estimates used in fault tree/event trees, Bayesian network and system dynamics and their propagation in a probabilistic model. (4) Quantification of human and organizational risks for high-rise residential buildings which contributes towards a policy agenda in the direction of a sustainable, risk-based regulatory regime. This research contributes to the development of the next-generation building codes and risk assessment methodologies.

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Structure Design for Green Building in some Residential Area in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.71-78.655 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 71-78 ◽

pp. 655-658

Author(s):

Rong Qin

Keyword(s):

Energy Saving ◽

Indoor Environment ◽

Residential Building ◽

Green Building ◽

Building Design ◽

Residential Area ◽

Structure Design ◽

Green Building Design ◽

Land Saving ◽

Material Saving

There are six basic control items, land saving, energy saving, water saving, material saving, indoor environment and operation, among which, only material saving are related to structure design. We followed the green building design concept and the control items list in those standards during structure design of one of the residential area in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, which consist of 15~18-story residential building connected to a large underground garage, as is shown below.

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