Evaluation of fire and life safety passive measures of mall buildings

Abstract

newline In recent years we come across the increased number of fire newlineaccidents in the society. To understand the current scenario of this fire newlinebehavior towards the buildings context, a background study was started. newlineNineteen years of fire accidents data were collected. The fire accidents newlinenumerical and its impacts were analyzed. Five buildings affected by fire newlinewere selected. The fire influencing factors, the fire safety and life safety newlinemeasures working conditions were studied. The fire accidents numerical newlinedata study was indicated that, The numbers of fire accidents are newlineincreasing in recent past years . The fire affected buildings study was newlineindicated that, Few buildings were not provided with the fire safety newlinemeasures and few buildings were provided with fire safety measures but newlinethey were not working at the time of fire accident. This background newlinestudy results raised the question and the research problem was newlineidentified. The aim of the research was to evaluate the heat resistance newlinecapability of building elements The Chennai City area was selected as newlinestudy area. The commercial category mall type buildings were selected newlineas sample from this study area. CMDA documentation source was used newlinefor sample selection. Stratified sampling method was followed. These newlineresearch elements and the research problem question gave a refined newlineresearch problem statement as Evaluation of Fire and Life Safety newlinePassive Measures of Mall Buildings . This topic related information newlinewas referred from the available sources. The inadequate with missing