ENFE604-17S2 (C) Semester Two 2017

Fire Design Case Study

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2017
End Date: Sunday, 19 November 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 28 July 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 13 October 2017

Description

Specific fire engineering design of a case study building. Application of fire design computer models. Synthesis of life safety and property protection strategies.

Learning Outcomes

The aim of this course is to introduce students to prescriptive and performance based fire engineering design. The course specifically covers aspects of the New Zealand regulatory environment and considers a more general design approach to fire engineering. The course is intended to bring together knowledge that students have gained in their previous studies.

Prerequisites

ENGR403 or approval of the Head of Department

Co-requisites

Timetable Note

This course will run as 2 three-day block courses on

24-26 July and 9-11 October

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Michael Spearpoint

Lecturers

Darin Millar (Holmes Fire) and Ben Hume (Beca International)

Assessment

Acceptable Solution project: Students will work individually to carry out an assessment of a building in accordance with the (Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment) MBIE Acceptable Solutions C/AS1-7. The audit is worth 15% of the course marks.

Performance based design project: Students will be placed into small groups (normally two students per group). Each group will be assigned buildings for their FSE. The FSE must include a comprehensive fire safety design for the buildings and must include but is not limited to:

1. A performance-based specific fire engineering design with appropriate justification
2. Cost analysis
3. Recommendations

This list represents a minimum requirement. The justification of the alternative solutions should be comprehensive and may require advanced analysis techniques. However you must also learn to be succinct in your writing so we are limiting you to maximum page lengths.

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Arthur E. Cote, editor-in-chief ; Casey C. Grant, John R. Hall, Robert E. Solomon, associate editors; Pamela A. Powell, managing editor; Fire protection handbook ; 20th; National Fire Protection Association, 2008.

National Fire Protection Association. , Society of Fire Protection Engineers; SFPE engineering guide to performance-based fire protection : analysis and design of buildings ; National Fire Protection Association ;Society of Fire Protection Engineers, 2000.

National Fire Protection Association. , Society of Fire Protection Engineers; SFPE handbook of fire protection engineering ; 4th ed; National Fire Protection Association ;Society of Fire Protection Engineers, 2008.

Spearpoint, Michael. , New Zealand Centre for Advanced Engineering; Fire engineering design guide ; 3rd ed; New Zealand Centre For Advanced Engineering, 2008.

Required Texts:

o Approved document for New Zealand Building Code: Building Code Clauses C1 - C6 Protection from Fire. http://www.building.dbh.govt.nz/building-code-compliance-documents-downloads

o International Fire Engineering Guidelines, Edition 2005 (selected material will be made available).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,038.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

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