The discipline of fire engineering is gradually gaining more acceptance among enforcing authorities. But to be viable in today's world, engineers need to think well beyond fire safety. The uk has been leading fire engineering for 25 years, through the work of fire scientists and engineers. This has enabled development of fire regulations and risk concepts which give scope for imaginative, engineering-based design, rather than adherence to codes, which often quote arbitrary numbers with little technical basis.
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