PERFORMANCE-BASED FIRE SAFETY DESIGN FOR A LARGE SCALE UNDERGROUND CAR-PARK

Abstract

This paper reports a case study of performance-based fire safety design for a large scale underground car-park which was conducted by us; voluntary fire safety engineers of Japan Association of Fire Protection Engineers (JAFPE) for the international conference of Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE). We constructed fundamental fire safety strategy which well take advantage of the characteristics of space arrangement, burning behaviour of cars and supposed occupants. And through analyses of smoke movement, evacuation behaviour and fire-fighting activity by combination of well-known methods and progressive methods, safety of occupants and fire-fighters are confirmed. We also report the other country’s proposals to investigate the possibility of different design approach.