Download or read book Fire Safety Management in Tall Buildings in the Context of Hong Kong written by Kankan Liang and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire Safety Management and Property Management in Hong Kong written by Hoi-Ping Lee and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Fire Safety Management and Property Management in Hong Kong" by Hoi-ping, Lee, 李凱屏, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: High rise buildings are commonly found in Hong Kong. Neighbours are so close to one another that activity next door could bring disastrous effect to the whole building even if only minor malpractice is found in daily activities. There had been a number of fires with large number of casualties and deaths in the recent years. Fire safety management in buildings across Hong Kong has been one of the most discussed topics in the territory by the government, politicians and the general public. Investigations of those incidents revealed that there are common malpractices found in those buildings - ineffective means of escape routes, unauthorized alteration to building usage and structures and low awareness on fire safety management. The government did take remedial actions after each fire by imposing more requirements on fire services equipments and systems for types of buildings that had been burnt in previous fires. Furthermore, ad hoc fleet checks to buildings with similar characteristics as where the fires were had also been carried out to meet public concern right after blazes. Long term measures such as enactment of new laws, amendments to existing codes of practice on fire safety equipments and systems, strengthening execution of laws towards offenders, launch of promotional programmes by the Fire Services Department to raise public concern on fire safety awareness have been in effect aiming at lowering the figures on fire cases and hence loss in lives and properties. After series of actions taken, number of fire cases, casualties and deaths result from fire did not go down in the past few years. Building fire safety condition in two cities in South East Asia, Singapore and Tokyo, are taken for comparison with that of Hong Kong. It is discovered that there are merits from the two cities for our reference in order to get the safety levels of our buildings be raised. The two governments in Singapore and Tokyo take proactive approach on control and promotion of fire safety in buildings while our policies are passive ones. Besides, both Singaporean and Tokyo government plan their policies with focus on the weaknesses found that bring adverse effect to the key issue. In order to cultivate safe atmosphere for citizens in Hong Kong, the government is strongly recommended to adopt proactive approach that addresses the root cause of the issue. Compulsory appointment of independent Fire Safety Manager, adoption of total fire safety management concepts with focus on emergency planning and drills, incentive programmes to raise the public awareness on building fire safety are expected to strengthen the concepts of fire safety in the community. On the other hand, compulsory formation of owners' corporations, legal review and amendments to current ordinance on building management in order to maintain equilibrium for management power among stakeholders, including building managers, of buildings and last but not least, putting legal liability on professional building managers for fire safety malpractices are suggested measures to address the root causes of the phenomena. DOI: 10.5353/th_b4834209 Subjects: Real estate management - China - Hong Kong Fire prevention - China - Hong Kong
Download or read book Fire Safety in Tall Buildings written by Cliff Barnett and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series is aimed at updating documentation of the state of the art in planning, design, construction, and operation of tall buildings and also their interaction with the urban environment. Coverage here is international and includes techniques for smoke control and building compartmentation, use of elevators for evacuation, human behavior during fires, structural analysis, material evaluation. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Fire Safety for Very Tall Buildings written by International Code Council and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide provides information on special topics that affect the fire safety performance of very tall buildings, their occupants and first responders during a fire. This Guide addresses these topics as part of the overall building design process using performance-based fire protection engineering concepts as described in the SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance Based Fire Protection. This Guide is not intended to be a recommended practice or a document that is suitable for adoption as a code. The Guide pertains to “super tall,” “very tall” and “tall” buildings. Throughout this Guide, all such buildings are called “very tall buildings.” These buildings are characterized by heights that impose fire protection challenges; they require special attention beyond the protection features typically provided by traditional fire protection methods. This Guide does not establish a definition of buildings that fall within the scope of this document.
Download or read book Fire Safety Design for Tall Buildings written by Feng Fu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire Safety Design for Tall Buildings provides structural engineers, architects, and students with a systematic introduction to fire safety design for tall buildings based on current analysis methods, design guidelines, and codes. It covers almost all aspects of fire safety design that an engineer or an architect might encounter—such as performance-based design and the basic principles of fire development and heat transfer. It also sets out an effective way of preventing the progressive collapse of a building in fire, and it demonstrates 3D modeling techniques to perform structural fire analysis with examples that replicate real fire incidents such as the Twin Towers and WTC7. This helps readers to understand the design of structures and analyze their behavior in fire.
Download or read book High Rise Security and Fire Life Safety written by Geoff Craighead and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003-04-15 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety servers as an essential took for building architects, building owners and property managers, security and fire safety directors, security consultants, and contract security firms. - Provides the reader with complete coverage of high-rise security and safety issues - Includes comprehensive sample documentation, diagrams, photographs to aid in developing security and fire life safety programs - Serves as an essential tool for building owners and managers, security and fire safety directors, security consultants and contract security firms
Download or read book An Empirical Study of Property Management and Fire Safety Condition written by Kam-Ming Tse and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "An Empirical Study of Property Management and Fire Safety Condition" by Kam-ming, Tse, 謝錦明, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract The issue of fire safety in Hong Kong has been highlighted by a number of disastrous fires from 1994 to 1997. Government enacted the FS(CP)O in 1997 which requires retrospective upgrading of fire services equipment, means of escape, means of access for fire-fighting and fire-resisting construction for PCP and SCB. The coverage is extended to composite building and domestic building by a new ordinance FS(B)O passed in 2002. It is now being proposed to address the problem of building neglect through compulsory set-up of IO and appointment of management company. This thesis argues that while introduction of new legislation may be pertinent, it will not effectively tackle the fire safety issue. The primary objective of this thesis is going to establish that building management is the most significant factor towards fire safety condition, not the building use type or building age as suggested in the fire safety ordinances and the Building Management and Maintenance (BMM) Consultation Paper. An empirical research of substantial scale involving 80 different types of buildings has been launched to study the relationship between fire safety condition and factors like appointment of management company, set up of IO, building type, building age, building size, provision of fire services installation etc. It has been established that among the factors under study, building management is most significant to the fire safety condition followed by building age, building type, establishment of IO and provision of fire services installation. Other factors such as building size and issuing of s24 orders are found to be irrelevant to the fire safety condition. Contrary to government's underlying assumption in FS(B)O, composite building is found to be the least fire-risky while industrial building is the most fire hazardous building category. Moreover, set-up of IO has a negative correlation with fire safety condition which suggests that compulsory set-up of IO does not help to improve fire safety condition. The existing fire safety control mechanism has set a wrong focus on secondary concerns. Based on the analysis, a number of recommendations are proposed at the end of this thesis. viii DOI: 10.5353/th_b3131901 Subjects: Fire prevention - China - Hong Kong Real estate management - China - Hong Kong
Download or read book STUDY OF FIRE SAFETY AWARENESS written by Wing-Yi Winnie Cheung and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "A Study of Fire Safety Awareness in Domestic Buildings in Hong Kong" by Wing-yi, Winnie, Cheung, 張詠兒, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. DOI: 10.5353/th_b4440057 Subjects: Dwellings - Fires and fire prevention - China - Hong Kong
Download or read book Engineering Guide written by Valerie Necka and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire Safety Management in Heritage Building written by Wai-chung Leung and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire Safety in High Rise Buildings written by Daniel Alvear and published by VDM Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear international tendency exists toward a considerable growth in High Rise Buildings construction, due to its impact in the urbanism, economy and architectural of the cities. However, in occasions this tendency has not been accompanied by an increase Fire Safety levels. Also, in view of recent large fires in tall buildings, such as, One Meridian Square (USA), East Tower Central Park (Venezuela), World Trade Center (USA), Windsor Tower (Spain), serious problems for life safety and structural integrity have been shown. The authors present their experiences, methodologies and scientist - technical advances on Fire Safety in High Rise Buildings. The Introduction was written by the Prof. Dr. José L. Torero, University of Edinburgh (UK). The topics covered include: the structural fire design, fire dynamics, life safety, fire and evacuation computer modelling, etc. It is intend for investigators, engineers specializing in Fire Safety, researchers and many disciplines related to the Fire Science and Technology.
Download or read book High Rise Living in Asian Cities written by Belinda Yuen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to fill a knowledge gap in the study of contemporary high-rise living. While there has been much documentation on the engineering and technological aspects of tall buildings, relatively little has been written about the social and livability of high-rise. Much less is written about Asian cities even though Asia is the current hotbed of high-rise development. Even though traditional discourse of high-rise housing is not always positive, new forces are redefining its place in 21st century urbanity. Many cities around the world are reembracing high-rise in urban agenda under current narrative of sustainable development. High-rise is fast becoming a priority area in international research agenda. The quest is for livable and sustainable high-rise development. Against the background of current trends--globalization, urbanization, mixed-use development, and new-built taller buildings in inner city areas in both developed and developing countries, this book examines the software: design, economics, estate management, legal and property rights, physical environment, planning, community development, and social dimensions of high-rise living. Analysis is with the widely acclaimed successful high-rise public housing in Hong Kong and Singapore to understand the advantages and worries of high-rise living, and to distill the key points and lessons in the making of a ‘good’ highrise living environment. Hong Kong and Singapore have been constructing high-rise for more than four decades each. The majority of their population has moved to live in high-rise, selecting to live high-rise, and registering consistently high residential satisfaction. The height of apartment buildings in both cities continues to rise. The tallest is anticipated to be 70-storey. It is the contention of this book that contrary to earlier common negative discourses on public high-rise living, the high-rise environment may yet offer urban residents a satisfying dwelling experience. Leading housing academics, researchers and practitioners in the two cities have contributed to this book. This book presents a timely contribution to our understanding of a widening urban phenomenon that will affect a growing number of the world’s population.
Download or read book Fire Safety for Very Tall Buildings written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide provides information on special topics that affect the fire safety performance of very tall buildings, their occupants and first responders during a fire. This Guide addresses these topics as part of the overall building design process using performance-based fire protection engineering concepts as described in the SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance Based Fire Protection. This Guide is not intended to be a recommended practice or a document that is suitable for adoption as a code. The Guide pertains to "super tall," "very tall" and "tall" buildings. Throughout this Guide, all such buildings are called "very tall buildings." These buildings are characterized by heights that impose fire protection challenges; they require special attention beyond the protection features typically provided by traditional fire protection methods. This Guide does not establish a definition of buildings that fall within the scope of this document. .
Download or read book Challenges to Fire Safety in Tall Buildings written by R. G. Gann and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tall Buildings Reference Book written by David Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the ever-changing skylines of cities all over the world show, tall buildings are an increasingly important solution to accommodating growth more sustainably in today’s urban areas. Whether it is residential, a workplace or mixed use, the tower is both a statement of intent and the defining image for the new global city. The Tall Buildings Reference Book addresses all the issues of building tall, from the procurement stage through the design and construction process to new technologies and the building’s contribution to the urban habitat. A case study section highlights the latest, the most innovative, the greenest and the most inspirational tall buildings being constructed today. A team of over fifty experts in all aspects of building tall have contributed to the making of the Tall Buildings Reference Book, creating an unparalleled source of information and inspiration for architects, engineers and developers.
Download or read book Fire from First Principles written by Paul Stollard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire safety is a fundamental requirement of any building, and is of concern to several professions which contribute to the construction process. Following on from the success of the previous three editions, Paul Stollard has returned to update and expand this classic introduction to the theoretical basis of fire-safety engineering and risk assessment. Avoiding complex calculations and specifications, Fire From First Principles is written with architects, building control officers and other construction professionals without fire engineering backgrounds in mind. By tackling an overview of the factors which contribute to fire risk, and how building design can limit these, the reader will gain a fuller understanding of the science behind fire regulations, safe design, and construction solutions. All regulations content is fully updated, and has been expanded to cover the USA and China as well as the UK. Ideal for students of architecture and construction subjects, as well as practitioners from all built environment fields learning about fire safety for the first time.
Download or read book REPORT OF THE PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO FIRE SAFETY IN HIGHRISE BUILDINGS VOL 1 2 written by ONTARIO. PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO FIRE SAFETY IN HIGHRISE BUILDINGS. and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
