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THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has launched a new standard for fire safety engineering, which it says should help to save lives, reduce costs due to fire damage, and bring substantial economic savings through improved fire safety design.
ISO 23932: 2009: Fire safety engineering – General principles outlines the general principles for a performance-based methodology for engineers to assess the level of fire safety for new or existing built environments. It provides an overview of how fire safety engineering analyses and risk-based assessments are conducted, with links to more specific standards – including those already published or under development.
The basic principles in the standard cover the analysis of phenomena such as fire growth, hot gases and movement of effluents, and structural and compartmentation behaviour, to reach fire safety objectives.
According to ISO, the document is mainly targeted at fire safety scientists and engineers who participate in, are affected by, or need to understand better the context of standards developed by ISO Technical Committee 92: Fire safety, Subcommittee SC4: Fire safety engineering. It is also valuable for practicing fire engineers.
ISO 23932: 2009 is available to purchase from the ISO Store at www.iso.org/
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