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This document describes reviews and controls with a primary focus on technical issues within fire safety engineering. It describes how the fire safety design process, including engineering approaches, forms a normal part of the overall control and review of the building process and defines eligibility criteria for the parties performing the controls.
The aim is to facilitate verification of building solutions including innovative and sustainable solutions and to harmonize the process for control within the field of fire safety engineering in European countries. This document is intended to be used as a reference document for building authorities and for use in connection with regulations by designers, local authorities and stakeholders in the building industry.
It will describe the review and control of the use of Fire Safety Engineering at fire safety design in the building process and includes both design alternatives. Nevertheless, it will take into account all life phases of a building:
- the planning and design,
- the construction
- The use and operation which needs maintenance
- The changes in the use
- The demolition by the end of life which does not suggest the end of materials and end of products (notion of reuse)
The level of consequences and complexity of construction will require different levels of checks. The technical specifications will propose a scheme of checks with different levels that member states may choose to implement in their national regulatory regime.
In fire safety design, compliance with fire safety regulations can be demonstrated by either using pre-accepted solutions that are defined by the building authorities, or by using fire safety engineering methods.
In many EU countries, legislation on performance-based code has not been implemented. The historical use of prescriptive code allowed developing a set of control and evaluation procedures, relying on the Construction product regulation. The application of prescriptive codes does not need specific assumptions, selection of products and systems is roughly made on predetermined performance.
Fire Safety Engineering is developing in Europe. Guidelines for Fire Safety engineers are developed by ISO TC 92 SC4, but also from different nonprofit organisation like SFPE. However, even if tools are developed and standardized by ISO, Fire safety engineers will define several assumptions related to the type of building and its operation, in order to characterise the fire development, and its consequences.
European Commission would like to improve the use the Fire Safety Engineering by member States. TC127 WG8 is proposing Technical Specifications to support Member States in regulating the use of Fire Safety Engineering.
The current New Work Item concerns the review and control of fire safety engineering application. The document will specify when and how to conduct reviews and controls within the field of fire safety design from planning and design to construction and, finally, operation and maintenance.
It is inspired by the Swedish Standards INSTA 952 – 2019 (ICS 13.220.01).
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