scholarly journals Risk Index Method—A Tool for Building Fire Safety Assessments

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3566
Author(s):  
Dorota Brzezińska ◽  
Paul Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Risk Index ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Index Method ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Building Fire ◽  
Industrial Fire ◽  
Safety Assessments ◽  
And Performance

The use of fire safety engineering and performance-based techniques continues to grow in prominence as building design becomes more ambitious, increasing complexity. National fire safety enforcement agencies are tasked with evaluating and approving the resulting fire strategies, which have similarly continued to become more advanced and specialist. To assist with the evaluation of fire strategies, this paper introduces a methodology dedicated to sustainable building fire safety level simulations. The methodology derives from ideas originally introduced in British Standard Specification PAS 911 in 2007 and combines a visual representation of fire strategies with a semi-quantitative approach to allow for their evaluation. The concept can be applied to a range of industrial fire safety assessments and can be modified for specific needs relative to different industries.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Legal Framework for Building Fire Safety Regulations in Spain

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Amaya Osácar ◽  
Juan Bautista Echeverria Trueba ◽  
Brian Meacham
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Building Fire ◽  
Safety Regulations ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Ideal

There is a trend in Europe towards increasing the quality and performance of regulations. At the same time, regulatory failure has been observed in the area of building fire safety regulation in England and elsewhere. As a result, an analysis of the appropriateness of fire safety regulations in Spain is warranted, with the objective being to assess whether a suitable level of fire safety is currently being delivered. Three basic elements must be considered in such analysis: the legal and regulatory framework, the level of fire risk/safety of buildings that is expected and the level which actually results, and a suitable method of analysis. The focus of this paper is creating a legal and regulatory framework, in particular with respect to fire safety in buildings. Components of an ”ideal” building regulatory framework to adequately control fire risk are presented, the existing building regulatory framework is summarized, and an analysis of the gaps between the ideal and the existing systems is presented. It is concluded that the gaps between the ideal and the existing framework are significant, and that the current fire safety regulations are not appropriate for assuring delivery of the intended level of fire risk mitigation.

Locating Problematic Road Sections: Comparisons between Crash Data and Composite Index Method

2015 ◽  
Vol 802 ◽  
pp. 345-350
Author(s):  
M.R. Intan Suhana ◽  
H. Hussain ◽  
T.H. Law ◽  
M.S. Ahmad Farhan
Keyword(s):  
Road Network ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Risk Index ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Index Method ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Road Traffic Crashes ◽  
Crash Data ◽  
Starting Point

Aware on the importance of upgrading and maintaining the safety level of existing road network, several attempts on localizing problematic road areas have been made. In current practice, the identification of those problematic sections was recognized based on the road’s safety level and one of the most common and acceptable method is by using crash data of the particular road network as a starting point for further actions. However, the information provided by crash data is far from providing good and broad pictures of the factors leading to crash. These circumstances have bringing out the needs to have another road safety indicator that can extensively describes actual situations at problematic road areas as well as can be used as a basis for further maintenance works. By focusing on the environment aspect of the roads, fourteen road environment indicators were chosen based on their abilities to portrayed current road environment conditions and its potential in triggering road traffic crashes. Data of these indicators were collected by means of naturalistic driving method within 80 km length road of Federal Road 2 connecting Kuantan and Maran Town in Pahang State. Composite road environment risk index was developed using these data where combination of risk generated from these environments aspects were evaluated and used in localizing problematic road sections. Apart from that, the outcomes were also used as basis in planning for road improvement plans. The development of composite road environment risk index as a proactive method in defining poor sections has proved to be very useful in identifications of problematic road sections requiring urgent road improvement works especially when crash data is not available or in poor quality.

scholarly journals Risk Index Method–A Tool for Sustainable, Holistic Building Fire Strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4469
Author(s):  
Dorota Brzezińska ◽  
Paul Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Risk Index ◽  
Safety Engineering ◽  
Safety Factors ◽  
Index Method ◽  
Engineering Approach ◽  
Actual Application ◽  
Fire Engineering ◽  
Environmental Objectives

Modern fire safety engineering seeks to ensure buildings are safe from fire by applying optimum levels of fire safety and protection resources without the need to overprotect. Similarly, the principles of sustainability aim to ensure resources are suitably applied to meet social, economic, and environmental objectives. However, there is a mismatch between the actual application of fire safety and the sustainability objectives for buildings, typically caused by the highly prescriptive historical approaches still largely adopted and legislated for in many countries. One solution that is increasingly adopted is the more flexible, “performance-based” fire engineering approach that bases fire safety and protection provisions on the development of key performance objectives, some of which could be influenced by sustainability engineering propositions for buildings, but very often this does not appear to be enough. The proposed new concept prompts separate assessment and scoring of the eight most important fire safety factors, allowing for calculation of the fire strategy risk index (FSRI). By comparing the FSRI of the actual submitted strategy against the baseline strategy, enforcement agencies or other interested stakeholders will have a methodology to determine optimal fire safety solutions for buildings.

Sustainable Building Design Case History C.K. Choi Building, UBC

2002 ◽  
Vol 86 (18) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Gilbert Raynard ◽  
Diana Klein
Keyword(s):  
Case History ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Design Case

scholarly journals Massive wood material for sustainable building design: the Massiv–Holz–Mauer wall system

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 416-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Santi ◽  
Francesca Pierobon ◽  
Giulia Corradini ◽  
Raffaele Cavalli ◽  
Michela Zanetti
Keyword(s):  
Building Design ◽  
Wood Material ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Wall System

The Monitoring and Ecological Evaluation of Beng River Sediment for Heavy Metals (Hg,Pb,Cr)

2014 ◽  
Vol 675-677 ◽  
pp. 345-349
Author(s):  
Ji Cai Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Risk Index ◽  
Potential Ecological Risk ◽  
Index Method ◽  
Ecological Risk Index ◽  
Ecological Evaluation ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Bottom Mud ◽  
River Reach ◽  
Very High

In order to analysis the Heavy metals in the bottom mud at beng river, we put the river reach between the bridge of beng river beside the er’huang road and the bridge beside the yin’meng road as the main research object, survey 14 transects of bottom mud from three indications (Hg,Pb,Cr) of the river and build a relate standards about the pollution of bottom mud depend on the domestic standards, in this paper, we use the potential ecological risk index method which was putted forward by Swedish scientists Hakanson as the criterion of the pollution about heavy metals in the mud. The results show that: at the rive reach mentioned above, we found there are very high heavy metals content in the bottom mud.

Collaborating in decision making of sustainable building design: An experimental study comparing CBA and WRC methods

2016 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
pp. 132-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paz Arroyo ◽  
Camila Fuenzalida ◽  
Alex Albert ◽  
Matthew R. Hallowell
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Experimental Study ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Sustainable Building
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