Fire safety systems – interaction and integration

Abstract

Fire safety is a performance characteristic of buildings. The technological functions of fire safety systems interact with the systems that are necessary for other environmental control systems and to fulfil other performance characteristics expected from the building. For some aspects of fire safety the systems needed to generate the ambient environment and the control expected over the ambient environment are conceptually the same systems that are needed for the control of the environment that changes because of the intrusion of products of combustion. Outlines the interactions between fire safety needs and the systems that help to generate and monitor the ambient environment.

Citation

Marchant, E.W. (2000), "Fire safety systems – interaction and integration", Facilities, Vol. 18 No. 10/11/12, pp. 444-455. https://doi.org/10.1108/02632770010349682