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Quantifying Risk for Deemed-to-Satisfy Apartment Buildings

Johansson, Ulf LU (2010) In LUTVDG/TVBB-5336-SE VBR920 20102
Division of Fire Safety Engineering
Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety
Abstract
Is it possible to quantify the risks associated with building design compliant with Deemed-to-Satisfy provisions? Prescriptive regulations can be said to provide an acceptable level of safety. Developments in the field of fire safety engineering have provided probabilistic methods for safety verification. It was theorized that by applying such methods to Deemed-to-Satisfy compliant case study buildings, an estimate of the risks associated with Deemed-to-Satisfy provisions could be derived. An event tree based QRA method together with a developed fire risk analysis framework was used to quantify the risks to individuals within apartments. The study was limited to Australian and Swedish building codes.
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author
Johansson, Ulf LU
supervisor
organization
course
VBR920 20102
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Deemed-to-Satisfy, prescriptive design, fire risk analysis, QRA, Quantitative Risk Analysis, Quantified risk, risk to life, case study
publication/series
LUTVDG/TVBB-5336-SE
report number
5336
ISSN
1402-3504
language
English
id
1729725
date added to LUP
2011-01-14 11:29:21
date last changed
2014-03-10 10:40:35
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  abstract     = {{Is it possible to quantify the risks associated with building design compliant with Deemed-to-Satisfy provisions? Prescriptive regulations can be said to provide an acceptable level of safety. Developments in the field of fire safety engineering have provided probabilistic methods for safety verification. It was theorized that by applying such methods to Deemed-to-Satisfy compliant case study buildings, an estimate of the risks associated with Deemed-to-Satisfy provisions could be derived. An event tree based QRA method together with a developed fire risk analysis framework was used to quantify the risks to individuals within apartments. The study was limited to Australian and Swedish building codes.}},
  author       = {{Johansson, Ulf}},
  issn         = {{1402-3504}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{LUTVDG/TVBB-5336-SE}},
  title        = {{Quantifying Risk for Deemed-to-Satisfy Apartment Buildings}},
  year         = {{2010}},
}