Analysis of the NFPA Fire Safety Evaluation System for Business Occupancies：（分析美国对营业用房消防安全评价体系）.pdfVIP

Fire Technology, Vol. 33, No. 3, 1997 TECHNICALNOTE Adysis of the NFPA Fire Safety Evaluation System for Business Occupancies John M. Watts, JI: Fire Safety Institute, Middlebury, Vermont Abstruct The NFPA Fire Safety Evaluation System (FSES) provides a multiattribute approach to evaluating fire safety performance. Published in NFPA lOlA, which addresses business occupancy as one of the four types of building use, the FSES consists of a process where- by fire safety parameters are assigned values, and a resulting score is calculated. The analysis in this paper uses the parametric value spread to rank these fire safety parameters and assess the differences between criteria for new and existing buildings. Introduction NFPA 101, Life Safety Code@,’ is one of the most widely used voluntary codes for identifying a minimum level of fire safety. The Fire Safety Evaluation System (FSES) provides a multiattribute approach to determining equivalencies to the Code’s requirements for certain occupancies. The technique was developed in the late 1970s at the Center for Fire Research, National Bureau of Standards (presently the Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology). It has been adapted to new editions of the Life Safety Code and is presently published in NFPA lOlA, Alternate Approaches to Life Safety.2 The original FSES was developed for health-care facilities as a uniform method of evaluating fire safety to help regulators assess compliance with feder- al requirements.3r4