Fire safety in multi-storey residential-commercial timber buildings

摘要

Master thesis discusses fire safety in multi-storey timber buildings. Emphasis is on residentialudand commercial buildings. The Slovenian legislation in domain of fire safety is discussed inuddetail, while the key laws and policies from field of fire safety are only presented graphically.udExactly Slovenian, German and English technical guideline of fire safety in timber buildingsudand discussed in detail and their comparation is presented in form of table. The differencesudbetween the discussed guidelines appear mainly in the permissible limits of heights of timberudstructures with a guaranteed fire protection or without it, in the prescribed fire resistance ofudthe bearing structures and in the allowed classes of reaction to fire for the interior linings of audstructure. Assessment of fire safety of the commercial building in Komenda (Slovenian tallestudtimber building) is made in accordance with Slovene (TSG-1-001:2010: Fire safety inudbuildings) and English (The BS 9999 Handbook: Effective fire safety in the design,udmanagement and use of buildings) technical guideline. Assessment is made on the basis ofudkey criteria, which were introduced during the thesis, those bein: the spread of fire to theudneighbouring buildings, the spread of fire through the building and evacuation routes andudsystem for reporting and alarm.