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A Study on the Weighting of Fire Safety Attributes for Fire Risk Assessment in Historic Buildings - Focused on NakSansa-

역사적 건축물 화재위험성 평가를 위한 화재안전속성의 중요도분석 연구 - 낙산사를 중심으로 -

  • Lee, Ji-Hee (School of Architecture & Civil Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
  • 이지희 (경북대학교 건축토목공학부)
  • Received : 2012.02.06
  • Accepted : 2012.05.17
  • Published : 2012.06.30
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Abstract

Fire is one of the greatest threats to historical buildings not only to the building's occupants but also to the building's structure and contents. The purpose of this research is to evaluate fire risk in historical buildings in Korea through a series of survey and review. In this research, a multicriteria decision-making approach involving Analytical Hierarchy Process has been designed to determine a weighted index to identify factors and quantify fire risk. Fire risk ranking systems of historical building has been developed in some applications, for example, BOCA, WISCONSIN, FSES and HFRI. According to the such derived fire risk indexing, the Human Activity index showed the highest risk, followed by Historic Buildings, Fire Safety Systems, and then Natural Environmental Causes. Comparison of these factors indicates that the derived risk values differ from case to case. It is proposed that a performance-based design approach should consider the building & occupant characteristics, locations and historical significance, resulting in a more accurate and effective evaluation of fire risk.

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