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Elewexe – Building 172b, California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo, Anna M. Santoro
Elewexe – Building 172b, California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo, Anna M. Santoro
Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports
California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo recently finished constructing a new multimillion student housing project on campus. One of the six buildings, elewexe or 172B, from this housing complex was selected for a full evaluation of the fire and life safety systems using both prescriptive and performance based approaches. The building is a Type II-B four story dormitory with an R-2 occupancy classification.
For the prescriptive approach, the building was evaluated against the most current editions of the IBC and relevant NFPA code editions for building requirements, sprinkler design and fire alarm and detection. When looking at the …
Fire And Life Safety Analysis: San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, Jason Woo
Fire And Life Safety Analysis: San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, Jason Woo
Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports
A fire and life safety analysis was conducted to fulfill a requirement for the Master of Science Degree in Fire Protection Engineering from California Polytechnic State University. A prescriptive and performance-based analysis was conducted on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The SFMOMA is a 10-story, 460,000 𝑓𝑡2 , Type 1A mixed occupancy building. Located in the northwest corner of San Francisco, SFMOMA houses a collection of over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, design and media making it one of the largest museums in the world for modern and contemporary art.
Four features of the prescriptive based analysis include: …