PERFORMANCE BASED FIRE SAFETY DESIGN OF AN OFFICE BUILDING WITH STEP VOIDS

Abstract

This paper reports the case study of performance based fire safety design of office building with step voids. This was designed by voluntary fire safety engineers of Japan association of fire safety engineers (JAFPE) and presented at international conference of Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE). First, fundamental fire safety strategy is proposed and following performance are verified by not only usual methods but also some progressive methods; smoke control, evacuation behavior, fire spread prevention and fire-fighting strategy. Moreover, through comparison with other team’s proposal on the conference, possibility of other design approaches and development of more sophisticated verification method etc. are also discussed.