Assessing fire safety provisions for satisfying green or sustainable building design criteria: preliminary suggestions
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International journal on architectural science, v.4, no.3, 2003, pp. 141-146
Abstract
The construction industry all over the world is moving towards constructing 'green' or 'sustainable' buildings. To satisfy the proposed assessment criteria, new architectural features and concepts, new mechanical and electrical systems, and appropriate energy and environment management scheme have been proposed. However, fire safety aspects have not yet been assessed properly. There had been numerous 'conflicts' between the 'green or sustainable building design' and 'fire safety provisions'.
In this paper, an assessment scheme on whether the fire safety provisions have been designed and operated by paying attention to criteria for green or sustainable buildings based on the following is proposed:
- Passive building construction.
- Active fire protection system.
- Fire safety management.
Total mark of the scheme is 100, with 50 marks allocated to items on fire safety management, 25 marks to passive building construction, and 25 marks to active fire protection system. Views from local professionals are now sought. Marks for each item are then turned after summarizing their feedbacks.
(1) Introduction
(2) Actions on the three areas
(3) Proposed marking scheme
(4) Conclusion
(5) References
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2003
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en