Guide E Fire safety engineering. 3rd edition
Publication Year
2010
Document Status
Withdrawn
Abstract
Aimed at people with responsibilities in the areas of design, installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance of building services. Discusses legislation, standards and strategy, the way in which buildings are classified within a fire precaution context, performance-based design principles and application of risk assessment to fire engineering designs. Other areas covered include: fire dynamics, means of escape and human factors, fire detection and alarm, emergency lighting, fire and smoke ventilation, fire suppression, compartmentation, firefighting, fire safety management and fire safety on construction sites.
Document History
Superseded by 4th edition. Supersedes 'Fire engineering. 2nd edition' (2003). Includes corrigendum issued in December 2012 with corrections to equations on pages 6-14 and 11-9.
Author
Smith, D. B. et al
ISBN
9781906846138
Publisher Information
Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers received its Royal Charter in 1976. They promote careers of building services engineers by accrediting courses of study in further and higher education, and by approving work based training programmes. Their publications include technical guidance and codes which set the criteria for best practice in the profession.
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