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2016

Performance-Based Design

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Office Building- Fire Protection Systems Evaluation, Christine Newton Jun 2016

Office Building- Fire Protection Systems Evaluation, Christine Newton

Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports

This report is a Life Safety Code (LSC) and fire protection systems evaluation of an office building located in Colorado. This report covers the prescriptive analysis of the building, as well as the performance‐based aspect of the evaluation.

The prescriptive analysis of this report includes assessment of the building code for structural design, means of egress, detection and notification systems, smoke control system, and the water‐ based fire suppression system for this building. The 2012 International Building Code (IBC) and the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) 101 LSC were used for the prescriptive based evaluation and the building was determined …


Orange Grove Library- Prescriptive And Performance-Based Fire And Life Safety Evaluation, David A. Boackle Jun 2016

Orange Grove Library- Prescriptive And Performance-Based Fire And Life Safety Evaluation, David A. Boackle

Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports

This report describes the analysis of the Orange Grove Library in Gulfport, Mississippi, using prescriptive and performance-based techniques to evaluate fire and life safety. The prescriptive analysis is broken down into four components: alarm, egress, structural and suppression. Prescriptive codes are written by consensus, such that adhering to these codes will produce a reasonable balance between cost, function and safety. The performance-based design analysis uses analytical tools to predict how this particular building would perform under specific fire conditions, chosen based on the actual building in place. Life safety is the primary goal of this analysis. Achievement of this goal …


Mayo Clinic Specialties Building- Fire And Life Safety Report, Taylor Bateman Jun 2016

Mayo Clinic Specialties Building- Fire And Life Safety Report, Taylor Bateman

Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports

The MCS Building is a medical clinic facility located in Phoenix, Arizona. It is a four-story building with roughly 40,000 square feet of occupied floor area per story. The MCS Building is connected to an adjoining hospital on all four occupied stories, and is not considered a separate building from the hospital in accordance with the 2012 International Building Code (IBC). However, for the academic purposes of this report, only the fire and life safety features of the MCS Building are discussed, as if it is a separate building. It consists primarily of medical offices and outpatient clinics, and is …