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Fire Protection: Whole Building Design

Fire Protection: Whole Building Design

"The United States has the highest fire losses in terms of both frequency and total losses of any modern technological society. New facilities and renovation projects need to be designed to incorporate efficient, cost-effective passive and automatic fire protection systems."  This article summarizes importand aspects of building design to mitigate the potenial for los due to fire....

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performance based design, site planning, fire safe buiding
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Material Type:
Open (Access) Journal-Article
Date Added to MERLOT:
August 23, 2011
Date Modified in MERLOT:
August 23, 2011
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Submitter:
James "JD" Brown
Primary Audience:
College Lower Division
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Website
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Not specified at this time
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none
Language:
English
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Unknown
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