Fire Safety Engineering (FSE) in Czech Republic

Introduction

Worldwide trend in projection of fire safety construction tends to promote complex and economical design by means of fire safety engineering. Fire safety engineering is basically an analysis of some space in object.

In the fire safety engineering is commonly used process of creation fire scenarios and probability calculation. Number of these scenarios would be practically limitless, because there are many variations of factors influencing diffusion of the fire.

After the determination of certain number of scenarios are all particular steps analysed.

After the evaluation of selected scenarios, a classification of hazard is assessed in terms of the number of affected persons and probability of the scenario

Single steps that designer should follow are:

The first situation in event tree is a fire initiation. Fire can be initiate in three single sectors. So every sector gets its probability (P1, P2, P3) and scenarios are S1 - n.

In practice it is very important to know where fire can originate, what probability of initiation in specific place it can have and what will be its impact on occupants in the object.

Rudolf KAISER – Petr KUČERAFire rescue service of Czech Republic & VSB - Technical University of Ostrava

Commission ISO/TC92Fire Safety

(around 70 countries)

SC1Fire Initiation and growth

SC2Fire

Containment

SC3Fire Threat to People and

Environment

SC4Fire Safety Engineering

Centre of Technical Standartization for Fire

SafetyTechnical standartization

Commision TNK 27

SC1Design of Fire Protection of

BuildingSC2

Fire testing and classification of construction

SC3Integrity of Fire Safety Devices

SC4Fire Safety Engineering

Template for calculation of solved examples in CD

EU vs. Czech Republic

Fire scenario

Procedure Event tree

Outputs of Fire Models

Utilization

Publication of FSE