22 years of performance-based fire engineering: where did it get us?

摘要

Legislation was put into place to enable the use of PB design, and the 'safety net' of the prescriptive 'deemed to satisfy '(DTS) provisions of the BCA were retained to give recipes for building designers to follow if they chose not to adopt a performance-based approach. At a similar time, some states introduced private certification as an alternative to councils issuing building and occupancy permits. Some education programmes were created, and some states developed requirements for education and registration for fire-safety engineers and certifiers; others did not. Differing approaches were adopted towards approval requirements for PB designs in each state and territory, and some Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs) moved to educate their staff to an extent; many did not.