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Research Report

SR281 Summary of the implementation of a fire research federated search element

This is a summary of the development and implementation of a fire research search element developed to facilitate the electronic search of international fire research literature in a single location.The...
  • Digital infrastructure
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SR280 Guidance for validation of models for specific fire safety design applications

This summary report is intended for model users who are evaluating the implementation of a particular modelling approach for a particular application.The model user is responsible for demonstrating whether the...
  • Fire safety
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Research Report

SR269 Building sustainability and fire-safety design interaction: Scoping study

This report summarises a review of available literature and developments related to building sustainability in consideration of the potential unintentional consequences on the fire-safety objectives of a building if due...
  • Fire safety
  • Sustainability
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Research Report

SR257 Automatic water-based fire suppression system experiments - literature summary for model validation purposes

This is one in a series of reports produces as part of an overarching project to consider the structural building safety aspects of fire safety.This report contains a summary of...
  • Active fire protection
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Research Report

SR245 Fire design for aging residential occupancies

This report was prepared during research into fire safety design associated with residential occupancies that are predominately older adults.Metrics of use when characterising an intended building occupancy for emergency evacuation...
  • Fire safety
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SR338 Accessible egress: Pilot workshops summary

This project addresses three interrelated issues in the New Zealand context of accessible means of building egress:Egressibility.Demographic, technological and social trends.Lack of sufficiently nuanced building user characteristics data and other...
  • Accessibility
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Research Report

SR318 Accessible emergency egress - literature review and scoping study

There is little quality data available surrounding the emergency building egress characteristics of the New Zealand population. What is available is not well defined, in terms of holistic metrics of...
  • Accessibility
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Research Report

SR207 Framework for virtual research communities - a scoping study

This report is a summary of the results of a scoping study to identify key success factors and environmental challenges for small-scale and large-scale test cases for creating a virtual...
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Research Report

SR238 Residential design fire scenario selection - using New Zealand fire incidents

Sets of design fire scenarios are required as one of the inputs for the probabilistic model currently being developed. Results and experience from analysis of New Zealand fire incident statistics...
  • Fire safety
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Research Report

SR206 Heat flux measurements: Experiments and modelling

This report was prepared during research into the use of plate thermometers for heat flux measurements and how these measurements can subsequently be used in terms of modelling and estimating...
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