Fire Publications - building design

building design

• Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers. Final Report. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster.
  NIST NCSTAR 1; 298 p. September 2005.
  National Institute of Standards and Technology; National Construction Safety Team
• Comparison of Building Code Structural Requirements. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center.
  NIST NCSTAR 1-1B; 264 p. September 2005.
  Ghosh, S. K.; Liang, X.
• Comparison of Codes, Standards and Practices in Use at the Time of the Design and Construction of World Trade Center 1, 2 and 7. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster.
  NIST NCSTAR 1-1E; 91 p. September 2005.
  Razza, J. C.; Grill, R. A.
• Compartment Fire-Generated Environment and Smoke Filling.
  NFPA SFPE 95; LC Card Number 95-68247;SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. 2nd Edition. Section 3. Chapter 10, National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy, MA, DiNenno, P. J.; Beyler, C. L.; Custer, R. L. P.; Walton, W. D., Editor(s), 3/174-196 p., 1995.
  Cooper, L. Y.
• Concepts of a Performance-Based Building Regulatory System for the United States.
  International Association for Fire Safety Science. Fire Safety Science. Proceedings. Fifth (5th) International Symposium. March 3-7, 1997, Melbourne, Australia, Intl. Assoc. for Fire Safety Science, Boston, MA, Hasemi, Y., Editor(s), 701-712 pp, 1997.
  Meacham, B. J.
• Design and Construction of Building Exits.
  NBS M151; 81 p. October 10, 1935.
  National Bureau of Standards
• Design and Construction of Structural Systems. Appendices A-G. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center.
  NIST NCSTAR 1-1A; 386 p. September 2005.
  Fanella, D. A.; Derecho, A. T.; Ghosh, S. K.
• Design and Construction of Structural Systems. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center.
  NIST NCSTAR 1-1A; 159 p. September 2005.
  Fanella, D. A.; Derecho, A. T.; Ghosh, S. K.
• Design, Construction and Maintenance of Structural and Life Safety Systems. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center.
  NIST NCSTAR 1-1; 270 p. September 2005.
  Lew, H. S.; Bukowski, R. W.; Carino, N. J.
• Determining Design Fires for Design-Level and Extreme Events.
  Reaching New Horizons. Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, 6th International Conference. Proceedings. June 14-16, 2006, Tokyo, Japan, Evans, D. D.; Gordon, J.; Hasemi, Y.; Sekizawa, A., Editor(s)(s), 1-11 pp, 2006.
  Bukowski, R. W.
• Elevator Controls.
  NFPA Journal, Vol. 100, No. 2, 42-57, March/April 2006.
  Bukowski, R. W.; Fleming, R. P.; Tubbs, J.; Marrion, C.; Dirksen, J.; Duke, C.; Prince, D.; Richardson, L. F.; Beste, D.; Stanlaske, D.
• Fire as a Building Design Load.
  Volume 1;Interscience Communications Ltd.; Building Research Establishment; National Fire Protection Association; National Institute of Standards and Technology; Society of Fire Protection Engineers; and Swedish National Testing and Research Institute. Interflam 2001. (Interflam '01). International Interflam Conference, 9th Proceedings. Volume 1. September 17-19, 2001, Edinburgh, Scotland, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, 341-350 pp, 2001.
  Bukowski, R. W.
• Fire Protection and Life Safety Provisions Applied to the Design and Construction of WTC 1, 2 and 7 and Post-Construction Provisions Applied After Occupancy. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center.
  NIST NCSTAR 1-1D; 156 p. September 2005.
  Grill, R. A.; Johnson, D. A.
• Fire-Resistance Classifications of Building Constructions. Report of Subcommittee on Fire-Resistance Classifications of the Central Housing Committee on Research, Design, and Construction.
  BMS 92; 72 p. October 7, 1942.
  National Bureau of Standards
• Fire Resistance Testing for Performance-Based Fire Design of Buildings. Final Report.
  NIST GCR 07-971; 154 p. June 2007.
  Beyler, C. L.; Beitel, J.; Iwankiw, N.; Lattimer, B.
• Forum Workshop on Establishing the Scientific Foundation for Performance-Based Fire Codes. Proceedings.
  NIST SP 1061; NIST Special Publication 1061; 66 p. December 2006.Forum Workshop on Establishing the Scientific Foundation for Performance-Based Fire Codes. Proceedings. April 5-7, 2006, 2006.
  Grosshandler, W. L.
• International Activities for Developing Performance-Based Fire Codes.
  CIB W14/96/1 (J);Building Research Institute. Fire Safety Design of Buildings and Fire Safety Engineering. Mini-Symposium. June 12, 1995, Tsukuba, Japan, IV/1-3 pp, 1995.
  Bukowski, R. W.
• Overview of Designing Buildings for Fire Resistance.
  NISTIR 6890; September 2002.Fire Resistance Determination and Performance Prediction Research Needs Workshop: Proceedings. Appendix III. Presentations: C. February 19-20, 2002, Gaithersburg, MD, Grosshandler, W. L., Editor(s), 44-50 pp, 2002.
  Beyler, C. L.; DiNenno, P. D.
• Performance-Based Codes: Economics, Documentation, and Design.
  NIST GCR 98-752; 203 p. July 1998.
  Averill, J. D.
• Research Agenda for the Next Generation of Performance-Based Design Tools.
  Volume 2;Interflam 2007. (Interflam '07). International Interflam Conference, 11th Proceedings. Volume 2. September 3-5, 2007, London, England, 1219-1230 pp, 2007.
  Grosshandler, W. L.
• Using Fire Models to Establish Performance Requirements for the Design of Buildings.
  NISTIR 6030; June 1997.U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural Resources (UJNR). Fire Research and Safety. 13th Joint Panel Meeting. Volume 1. March 13-20, 1996, Gaithersburg, MD, Beall, K. A., Editor(s), 89-96 pp, 1997.
  Stroup, D. W.
• WTC Towers : Innovative Design Features and Structural Modeling.
  TS 3-7-5 Fire Engineering (1);Tall Buildings in Historical Cities: Culture and Technology for Sustainable Cities. Volume 2. Proceedings. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) 2004 Seoul Conference. October 10-13, 2004, Seoul, Korea, Lee, L. H.; Klemencic, R.; Kim, S. D., Editor(s)(s), 1150-1153 pp, 2004.
  Lew, H. S.; Sadek, F.