Fire Hazard Assessment Methodology.
Fire Hazard Assessment Methodology.
(641 K)
Jones, W. W.
NISTIR 5836; NISTIR 6030; 10 p. May 1996.
U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural
Resources (UJNR). Fire Research and Safety. 13th Joint
Panel Meeting. Volume 2. NISTIR 6030. March
13-20,1996, Gaithersburg, MD, Beall, K. A., Editor(s),
61-67 pp, 1997.
Available from:
National Technical Information Service
Order number: PB97-184204
Keywords:
fire hazards; hazard assessment; fire models; computer
models; methodology
Abstract:
The United States alone spends about $850B per year on
new and renovated construction. About 1/5 of this is to
assure safety from unwanted fires. This presents a
major opportunity for the introduction of new fire safe
products to the building and transportation industries
and new products such as advanced detectors and
suppression systems and fire fighting equipment for the
fire safety industry. These industries need measures of
performance for their products and mechanisms to show
that these products can be safely and quickly
introduced. In order to derive this benefit it is
necessary to have tools to evaluate building systems
performance which then provide a metric for the
effectiveness of design and material use. The Fire
Hazard Assessment Methodology provides the first
component of a performance evaluation system.
