The Upgrading of Fire Safety in Historic Buildings

Kincaid, Simon

doi:10.1080/17567505.2017.1399972

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“…Similar findings were presented by Schachterle et al (2012) in a cross-sectional study that linked residential vacant properties with fire events in Baltimore city and found that occupied properties neighbouring vacant properties within 100 m tend to increase the risk of fire. Higher proportion of flats and apartments (Xiong et al, 2015), mobile homes (Runyan et al, 1992), historic buildings (Kincaid, 2017) and multi-storey buildings (Weightman et al, 2004) are more likely to experience fire compared to detached and semi-detached buildings (Turner et al, 2017). Older and dilapidated buildings are at elevated risk of causing fire fatalities (Runyan et al, 1992;Xiong et al, 2015).…”

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Examining spatio-temporal patterns, drivers and trends of residential fires in South East Queensland, Australia

Chhetri

Corcoran

Ahmad

et al. 2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first is to examine the changing spatio-temporal patterns and regional trends in residential fires; and second is to investigate the likely association of fire risk with seasons, calendar events and socio-economic disadvantage. Design/methodology/approach Using spatial analytic and predictive techniques, 11 years of fire incident data supplied by the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services are mapped and analysed. Findings The results show significant spatial and temporal variability in the distribution of residential fires. Residential fire incidents are more likely to occur in the inner city and across more disadvantaged areas. Mapped outputs show some areas in Brisbane at a higher risk of fire than others and that the risk of fire escalates at specific times of the year, in neighbourhoods with a higher disadvantage, during major sporting events and school holidays. The residential fires showed strong seasonal periodicity. There is a continuous yet gradual increase in the number of fire incidents recorded for all five sub-regions within SEQ. Sunshine Coast experienced the highest upward trend whereas Toowoomba and West Moreton show the lowest increase. Originality/value This study provides an empirical basis to guide future operational strategies through targeting high fire risk areas at particular times. This, in turn, will help utilise finite resources in areas where and when they need and thus enable minimise emergency management costs.

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“…Cultural heritage is subject to various dangers that impact its continued existence and relevance. Fire represents one of the most significant threats to cultural heritage, so implementing measures capable of minimizing its effects is of the utmost importance (Kincaid, 2018;Romão & Bertolin, 2022). Historic buildings worldwide were built several decades or centuries ago without their construction considering principles of fire protection and prevention.…”

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Fire Safety Conditions at Historic Buildings: Cathedral of Porto Case

Castro,

Gonçalves,

Perestrelo

2023

International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene: Proceedings Book of the SHO2023

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Background: Cultural heritage consists of all assets that, being testimonies with civilization or cultural value, bearers of relevant cultural interest, should be the object of special protection and appreciation. Fire is one of the main dangers that affect cultural heritage worldwide, with an impact that can result in the total or partial loss of irreplaceable assets. Objective: The main objective of this text is to reflect on the implementation of protection and maintenance measures capable of preventing most fires and minimizing their effects, with a particular focus on the efforts to be made in adapting them to historic buildings, based on the case study. Method: The methodological design was based on documental analysis and observational and analytical study, translated into the description and analysis of the current fire safety conditions implemented in the Cathedral of Porto, proposing corrective and improvement measures, bearing the ease of their implementation. Results/Discussion: The elaboration of a fire safety analysis in historic buildings can be a considerable challenge and require joint action to develop minimally invasive, innovative, and sustainable solutions capable of reconciling the principles of fire safety and heritage conservation. Conclusion: The Cathedral of Porto only meets a few regulatory generic fire requirements.

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“…It has been stated that one of the key factors in preventing the loss of old buildings in fire is to upgrade its passive fire protection measures. 6 Thus, the compartmentation becomes highly important to prevent and limit the spread of fire within a building to reduce the loss of irreplaceable historic fabric. To retain historical building materials into the fire compartments; the requirements for structural fire design must be met.…”

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“…Yet nowadays these materials do not often comply with the contemporary fire safety standards. It has been stated that one of the key factors in preventing the loss of old buildings in fire is to upgrade its passive fire protection measures 6 . Thus, the compartmentation becomes highly important to prevent and limit the spread of fire within a building to reduce the loss of irreplaceable historic fabric.…”

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Small‐scale assessment method for the fire resistance of historic plaster system and timber structures

Liblik

Just

2022

Fire and Materials

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The primary protection against the charring of timber is ensured by protection materials. Today, there are only a limited number of materials given in design codes as fire protection materials for timber. Historic surface finish materials such as plasters have rarely been studied with respect to fire; no design values exist in the current fire part of Eurocode 5. Full‐scale fire testing is costly to assess the fire performance of material combinations, thus this study presents a useful tool that is specifically tailored to evaluate the fire protection ability of materials in small‐scale. A review of conducted tests demonstrate that the cone heater of a cone calorimeter is a dependable device to estimate the charring performance of protected timber specimens as the test results approximate the ones obtained from furnace tests. This work contributes to the assessment of fire resistance performance of various combinations and types of plaster systems found in existing timber buildings that often require an individual approach for an adequate fire risk analysis and design decisions to meet current fire safety regulations with respect to the load‐bearing capacity and compartmentation of building structures. Increased knowledge on the fire protection performance of traditional plasters is believed to facilitate their wider use in timber buildings, primarily to preserve their significance as part of the cultural built heritage.

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The Upgrading of Fire Safety in Historic Buildings

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Examining spatio-temporal patterns, drivers and trends of residential fires in South East Queensland, Australia

Examining spatio-temporal patterns, drivers and trends of residential fires in South East Queensland, Australia

Fire Safety Conditions at Historic Buildings: Cathedral of Porto Case

Small‐scale assessment method for the fire resistance of historic plaster system and timber structures

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