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BS ISO 23932:2009

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Fire safety engineering. General principles
Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Published date

28-02-2011

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Overview of the fire-safety engineering process
5 Scope of the project concerning fire-safety engineering
   process
6 Identification of fire-safety objectives, functional
   requirements and performance criteria
7 Hazard identification
8 Fire-safety design plan
9 Fire and behavioural scenarios
10 Selection of engineering methods and preliminary report
11 Scenario-based evaluation of trial design
12 Final project report
13 Implementation of fire-safety design plan
14 Fire-safety management and inspection
Bibliography

Gives general principles for a performance-based methodology for engineers to assess the level of fire safety for new or existing built environments.

This International Standard provides general principles for a performance-based methodology for engineers to assess the level of fire safety for new or existing built environments. Fire safety is evaluated through an engineered approach based on the quantification of the behaviour of fire and people and based on knowledge of the consequences of such behaviour on life safety, property and the environment.

This International Standard is not intended as a detailed technical design guide, but does contain the key elements needed by practicing fire safety engineers and peer reviewers (those entities who can be required to review the work of fire-safety engineers) for addressing the different steps and their linkages in a design process. The information contained in this International Standard is intended not only to be useful to engineers directly but also to serve as a template to guide the development of a consistent set of fire-safety engineering documents covering the role of engineering methods and test methods in performance-based design and assessment.

The basic principles of fire-safety design and related fire-safety objectives in this International Standard can be applied in any other document addressing phenomena associated with fire (e.g. fire growth, hot gases and effluents movement, structural and compartmentalization behaviour). Related fire-safety objectives include, for example,

  • safety of life;

  • conservation of property;

  • continuity of operations;

  • protection of the environment;

  • preservation of heritage.

Furthermore, these basic principles can be applied to all configurations of the built environment (e.g. buildings, transportation systems and industrial installations).

Because prescriptive regulations covering fire-safety design will co-exist for some time with performance-based design, this International Standard takes into account that fire-safety designs conforming to prescriptive regulations can become the basis for comparison of engineered designs of new built environments.

Committee
FSH/24
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
30
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Current

Standards Relationship
ISO 23932:2009 Identical

ISO/TR 13387-1:1999 FIRE SAFETY ENGINEERING - PART 1: APPLICATION OF FIRE PERFORMANCE CONCEPTS TO DESIGN OBJECTIVES
ISO 13943:2017 Fire safety — Vocabulary
ISO/TS 16732:2005 Fire safety engineering Guidance on fire risk assessment
ISO/TS 16733:2006 Fire safety engineering Selection of design fire scenarios and design fires

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