Fire Protection Engineering in Building Design

Fire Protection Engineering in Building Design
Jane I. Lataille, P.E.
Fire Protection Engineer
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: The Importance of
Integrating Fire Protection Design
What Is Fire Protection Engineering? 1
1-1 The Discipline 1
1-2 The Professional Society 5
1-3 What FPEs Do 6
1-4 How Fire Protection Engineering Differs 7
Functions of Fire Protection Systems 9
2-1 Preventing and Protecting Against Fire 9
2-2 Reasons for Installing Fire Protection
Systems 11
2-3 Protecting Assets 12
2-4 Relating Design Features to Function 14
Performance-Based Fire Protection Design 19
3-1 Design Elements 19
3-2 Fire Science 22
3-3 Design Fire Scenarios 25
3-4 Other Design Considerations 26
3-5 Examples of Performance-Based Design 28
Prescriptive Fire Protection Design 33
4-1 Desirability of Prescriptive Design 33
4-2 Prescriptive Codes 34
4-3 Inherent Risk 36
4-4 Design Coordination 37
Interfacing With the Other Disciplines 40
5-.1 Architectural 40
5-2 Chemical 46
5-3 Electrical 59
5-4 Mechanical 69
5- 5 Structural 75 vi Contents
References
Fire Protection for New and Existing Buildings 83
6-1 The Design Process 83
6-2 New Construction 84
6-3 Existing Buildings 86
Writing Fire Protection Specifications 90
7-1 Coordinating the Specifications 90
7-2 Traditional Project Specifications 96
7-3 Division 13 – Special Construction 100
7-4 Expanded Construction Specifications 101
Related Professional Organizations
Alphabetical Listing
Listing By Type
Listing By Related Discipline
Index
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