| Title |
A Basic Study for the Fire Safety Design of Historic Buildings |
| Authors |
Lee Ji-Hee ; Choo Yeun-Hee ; Kim Wha-Jung |
| Keywords |
Historic Building ; Fire-Safety ; Performance-based Fire Safety Design |
| Abstract |
Fire was and remains a great threat to historic buildings of wood. This threat is omnipresent and often results to irreparable property losses especially cultural heritages. Fire of historic buildings continues to increase every year. The purpose of this study is to preserve a life safety, historical heritages and architectural & cultural values by pursuing for fire safety in the historical buildings.
This study shall employ a literature review and fire protection method. The literature review shall focus on the observations of characteristics noted in fire codes. A method is proposed to investigate fire codes related historical buildings, reported fire history Fire Codes and Regulations for modern buildings are not always applicable on the historic buildings. Old buildings, and some new buildings with architectural, historical or cultural importance may have values which cannot be measured on a monetary scale. Their protection against the damage caused by fire is considered to be one of the basic moral duties of society.
It is strongly recommended , therefore, legislation for fire safety in historical buildings must be extended to a complementary relationship with "active" fire protection measures, to provide safety in real historical building in real fire situations. The development and application of performance based Codes and the Fire Safety Engineering approach seems to be a rather reasonable and effective way to deal with these historical buildings. |