Means of Escape from Fire (eBook)

M. J. Billington, Alex Copping, Anthony Ferguson (Autoren)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
304 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4051-7278-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The provision of an adequate means of escape from fire is
fundamental to the design of new buildings and to the alteration,
change of use or extension of existing buildings. It is essential
that means of escape are considered at the earliest stage of a
project as mistakes are very expensive to correct later in the
design.

There is a great deal of legislation on means of escape design
and control, but this is scattered throughout a large number of
statutes, regulations and guidance documents. Many buildings need
to be licensed and/or registered, as well as requiring
certification and Building Regulation compliance.

This book provides an invaluable reference on the subject for
architects, surveyors and building control officers. It:

? identifies the legislation which applies to any particular
building use

? describes the general principles of designing means of escape,
together with a ten step approach for a range of residential and
non-residential buildings

? considers alternative design options based on fire safety
engineering

? outlines fire safety management in premises in use as an aid
to employers, who have a statutory duty to undertake fire risk
assessments.

Autor

M. J. Billington, BSc, MRICS, MIoR, is a Chartered Building Surveyor. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in building control and construction at De Montfort University, Leicester, before leaving to join the private sector, where he continued to act as visiting lecturer at a number of universities. Currently he is Managing Director of Construction Auditing Services Ltd, a company that specialises in latent defects technical auditing, and is Chairman of Certass Ltd, one of the leading Building Regulations Competent Persons Schemes for building fabric. Mike is a regular contributor to Knights Building Regulations and is widely published in the fields of building control and building surveying.

Inhalt

Means of escape - the background; New and altered buildings - the statutory requirements; Buildings in use - the statutory requirements; Means of escape - general principles; Means of escape - principles in practice; Dwellinghouses, flats and maisonettes; Application to buildings other than dwellings; Modification of the basic principles of means of escape; New approaches 1: BS999: Part 1 Means of escape; New approaches 2: Fire safety engineering; Management of fire safety; Appendix A Means of escape case study; Appendix B Fire risk assessment case study

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Allgemeines Verwaltungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• Schlagworte: Bauausführung • Bauausführung • Bauingenieur- u. Bauwesen • Civil Engineering & Construction • Construction
• ISBN-10: 1-4051-7278-9 / 1405172789
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-7278-3 / 9781405172783