Fire engineering design of large PTIs
Citation
HKIA journal: the official journal of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects (香港建築師學報), no.30, 2001, pp. 54-57
Abstract
(1) Abstract
According to the prescriptive codes for fire safety in the Buildings Department, a Public Transport Inter-exchange (PTI) must also comply with the fire resistance construction and means of escape requirements which are normally applied to ordinary buildings such as residential buildings and offices. For the fire services requirement, the FSI code states that passenger terminals will be subject to individual consideraion by the Director of Fire Services taking into account of their size and complexity. The requirements will generally be the same as those for similar use. Those prescriptive FSI requirements may be satisfactory for small PTIs, however, for large ones, it is found that those requirements may not be appropriate. The Fire Services Department encourages using a fire engineering to design a large PTI.
Using a fire engineering approach, the design of a PTI can be more cost effective and, at the same time, have a better level of safety. Some of the prescriptive code requirements will not be complied with; instead the requirements will be based on the engineering and scientific principles. This paper will present a fire engineering design of large PTIs. A typical example will also be given.
(2) Introduction
(3) Fire engineering approach
(4) Objectives of fire engineering study and acceptance criteria
(5) Compartmentation
(6) Means of escape
(7) Discussions
(8) Conclusions
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Type
Article
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Date
2001
Language
en