Protection of Firefighters under the Building Codes.
Protection of Firefighters under the Building Codes.
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Bukowski, R. W.
Fire Engineering, Vol. 155, No. 1, 88-92, January 2002.
Keywords:
fire fighters; building codes; fire departments; fire
codes; performance based codes; fire safety; sprinklers
Abstract:
Historically in the United States and in most other
countries the building codes have been silent on the
subject of the protection of firefighters. As these
largely prescriptive codes have been replaced by
performance-based codes that are based on explicit
statements of objectives this issue has surfaced. In
several countries this has been the topic of lively
debate. This paper is intended to raise the major issues
and to focus the debate in the hope of achieving some
level of international consensus.
