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Culminating Project- U.S. Federal Courthouse, Joshua W. Elvove
Culminating Project- U.S. Federal Courthouse, Joshua W. Elvove
Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports
The purpose of this report is to select and evaluate a building for compliance with prescriptive and performance based requirements, that apply the concepts learned from previous courses taken as part of the master’s fire protection engineering degree curriculum at Cal Poly, San Luis Obisbo. The report discusses applicable code requirements for building construction, egress, fire alarm initiation and notification, and fire suppression and evaluates the building’s performance, including occupant movement, when subjected to two assumed fires. Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) was used to generate data used during the performance analysis. The performance analysis reveals that meeting prescriptive requirements doesn’t …
Life Safety Report Xyz Office Building Denver Colorado, Keith Dix
Life Safety Report Xyz Office Building Denver Colorado, Keith Dix
Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports
This report is a Life Safety Analysis of the XYZ building in Colorado. It is a government contract facility and as such prefers that its real name and location not be utilized for this report. The building was assessed prescriptively using the 2009 International Building Code (IBC) and was found to be predominantly compliant with the code and the relevant referenced standards. The building was then assessed using a Performance Based Design in accordance with methodologies found and addressed in common fire protection literature. The Design Criteria chosen to determine tenability for the Required Safe Egress Time (RSET) were Carbon …