Single-Course English 5 ECTS

Building Fire Safety

Overall Course Objectives

To obtain knowledge of fire safety engineering with a focus on the regulations in Denmark. The focus is on both life safety and securing of building and other assets.

Discuss the valid regulations in the domain of fire safety engineering
Differentiate projects to be designed according to the building regulative system, from projects according to the rules established by the emergency management act
Select the right category of application and fire class for a project
Explain methods for active and passive fire safety
Evaluate and select appropriate fire test methods for building materials
Explain principles of detection and suppression of fires
Analyse the evacuation safety level in a building, based on a comparison of RSET and ASET
Review tenability criteria for fire
Make a calculation of the evacuation of a building
Perform timeline analysis for a fire scenario that is deemed relevant
Perform a simple risk analysis

– Injuries after a building fire
– The fire regulations in Denmark
– Performance based codes
– Fire tests and classification
– Basic fire dynamics properties
– Fire properties of common buildings materials
– Active and passive fire safety systems
– Evacuation analysis
– Fire safety analysis and planning of building projects
– Fire risk assessment
– Sustainable fire safety design
– Fire modeling

The student should possess engineering knowledge about buildings and building elements, and be capable of performing computations requiring university level mathematics.

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