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| Title: | Out of Range |
| Authors: | Jonsdottir, Anna M
Rein, Guillermo |
| Issue Date: | Dec-2009 |
| Citation: | A Jonsdottir, G Rein, Out of Range, Fire Risk Management, Dec 2009, pp. 14-17 |
| Publisher: | Fire Risk Management |
| Abstract: | A survey of the University of Edinburgh campus underlines the narrow design fire specifications of the Eurocodes for many buildings. The limits set out in the Eurocodes are height less than 4 m, floor plan under 500 m2, amount of glass and thermal inertia not too high or too low, and no vertical openings. In the King’s Buildings, built over a long period of time with many of them from the early 20th century, 66% of the total volume is inside the limitations of the Eurocode. But in the Informatics Forum (a 2008 brand new modern building with lots of open spaces and glass facades), only 8% of the total volume is inside the limitations. One could say that modern building trends are once more moving out of the limits of our current understanding in fire dynamics. |
| Description: | Article in the Dec 2009 issue on public spaces of the magazine Fire Risk Management. |
| Keywords: | eurocode
structural
standard fire
travelling fire |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3204 |
| Appears in Collections: | BRE Research Publications
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