Publication 288 Fire safe design: a new approach to multi storey steel framed buildings (Withdrawn)

Publication Year

2000

Document Status

Withdrawn, cited in regs

Abstract

Large-scale fire tests and observations of actual fires have shown that real buildings perform better in fires than would be predicted from standard fire tests. Presents initial recommendations based largely on results from the BRE Cardington large-scale building fire test programme. Recommendations are limited to non-sway steel-framed buildings with composite floors in the low fire risk categories of up to 60 minutes. The guidance gives designers access to whole building behaviour and allows them to determine which members can remain unprotected while maintaining safety levels equivalent to traditional methods.

Document History

Withdrawn. Superseded by: P288 Fire safe design: a new approach to multi-storey steel-framed buildings. 2nd edition (SCI, 2006).

ISBN

9781859421208

Publisher Information