A Fire Safety Evaluation System for Prioritizing Fire Improvements in Old High-rise Buildings in Hong Kong 旧建筑防火安全评价系统.pdfVIP

Fire Technology, 43, 233–249, 2007 12 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Manufactured in The United States DOI: 10.1007/s10694-007-0014-8 A Fire Safety Evaluation System for Prioritizing Fire Improvements in Old High-rise Buildings in Hong Kong L. T. Wong* and S. W. Lau, Department of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China Published online: 31 July 2007 Abstract. Fire safety in old high-rise buildings is of great concern to the general public as a result of several big fires occurred over the past 10 years. A fire safety evaluation system is essential for building engineers to quantify the fire safety level, to identify the measures to be improved and to schedule the corresponding improve- ments. Together with a scoring system with weighting factors derived for local build- ings, this paper proposes a universal fire safety evaluation (FSE) checklist for fire safety level quantification and improvements prioritization in old high-rise buildings. In a survey, the fire safety levels of 122 old high-rise buildings in Hong Kong were quantified using the scoring system. The survey results showed that only less than 5% of the inspected samples reached the standard required for life safety. The FSE checklist was then applied to prioritize the improvement works of 10 selected buildings with the lowest scores. Keywords: fire safety, high-rise buildings, Hong Kong Nomenclature A area (m2), B building sco