The SFPE Design Guide for Performance-Based Design: A Key Element in Performance-Based Fire Codes and Standards

摘要

Performance-based codes are currently a part of the regulatory landscape. In order to develop a methodology to perform performance-based designs (PBD), the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) with the assistance of a grant from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has developed The SFPE Design Guide for Performance-Based Design. The following issues will be addressed as they relate to the SFPE Design Guide: (1) the status of performance-based codes, (2) the status and content of the SFPE Design Guide, (3) the interrelation of the SFPE Design Guide and ASTM Standards, and (4) areas that need to be addressed further in order to assist the fire protection engineers in PBD.