Fire Safety Engineering - F.S.E.
The new performance-based approach to fire engineering
Fire Safety Engineering for fire prevention
The Fire Safety Engineering (FSE) is a new approach to fire prevention, a new method of fire prevention design which exceeds the limits imposed by vertical regulations by introducing calculation methods and simulations engineering firefighting aims to reproduce the real dynamics of a fire and directly connected events.
Fire safety regulations in Italy: the fire prevention code
In Italy,’fire engineering it was introduced for the first time with Fire safety code (M.D. 05/09/07), but only thanks to the issuance of the RTO - new Fire safety code (Ministerial Decree of August 3, 2015, and subsequent amendments), the fire protection engineering It took more freedom of application.
From the prescriptive engineering approach to the performance-based one
The fire safety regulations, in fact, has recently evolved from “prescriptive”a“high-performance”or from a technical rule defined for each type of activity to a methodology that takes into account the “specific situation”, a major change in the sector fire prevention design.
The solutions that can be identified with the fire safety engineering o fire protection engineering indeed, they do not apply a general rule, but they are tailored ad hoc by the expert technician for the specific activity, following an in-depth analysis and simulating with a engineering approach incidental situations that could actually occur.
Project for client 3i group – Purpose: structural fire resistance and evacuation conditions analysis – smoke spread inside the stairwell
The benefits of fire protection engineering in fire safety
The considerable advantage lies precisely in the fact that the real situation is analyzed and the various solutions and measures are identified for fire safety simulating the effectiveness of intervention and identifying, in agreement with the Fire Brigade Command competent, works that are actually effective but above all feasible both in terms of technology and costs.
In summary fire engineering bring the following benefits to fire safety:
- create compartmentslarger,
- manage escape routeslonger,
- reduceand in many cases zeroing out the costs related to fire protection of structures.
- resolve unauthorized issuesaccording to standard regulatory approaches, ensuring the highest safety standards, tailoring design choices to specific needs.
WHAT CAN WE DO FOR YOU?
I fire safety professionals 3i group boast experience and expertise that comes from years of activity in the sector of fire prevention jointly with Design structural and plant engineering firefighting, for each type of activity and risk.
The areas of our fire safety consulting:
- airport hubs
- hotel activities
- ordinary industrial activities
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- large shopping centers
- hospitals and healthcare facilities
- Major Accident Hazard establishment“
FIRE SAFETY ENGINEERING: THE STEPS OF THE FIRE ENGINEERING APPROACH
What are the steps for a complete fire safety consulting?
1) definition, in collaboration with the supervisory body and the client, of possible accident scenarios characteristic of the activity, and consequently evidence of safety levels and objectives.
The formalization of this first step takes place through the drafting of an initial technical report, signed jointly by the designer and the business owner.
2) quantitative analysis of the effects of the fire in relation to the assumed objectives; numerical fire simulations (carried out using software of proven reliability).
The test results are thus compared with the performance levels and preset objectives.
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