Fire safety design #1: Towards a risk-informed approach to fire-safety design (2020)

The New Zealand Building Code (NZBC) and Verification Method C/VM2 help ensure that a building design complies with criteria for fire safety. However, the values given as parameters in the NZBC and C/VM2 do not account for risk, and some may be conservative estimates. BRANZ undertook an international literature review on technical justifications for these parameters and to find representative statistical distributions, where available.

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