Traditionally, the effectiveness of fire safety protection in most countries has been presented in forms such as deaths per million population, while the cost of such protection has been shown...
Traditional fire safety design of buildings has been based on the concept of a fire resistance rating (FRR). The FRR of part of a building is the period of time...
Traditional design of smoke management systems (SMS) aims at providing smoke exhaust capacity based on maintaining the design smoke and airflow rates at critical locations in the building and by...
Multi-storey buildings typically have complex floor plans and unknown gaps between the compartments. The effectiveness of smoke control systems in these buildings relies on the accuracy with which the movement...