Resilience, fire and the UK Codes and Standards. Where are they and where could they go?

Manes, Martina ORCID: 0000-0003-2302-1720, Lange, David and Rush, David (2023) Resilience, fire and the UK Codes and Standards. Where are they and where could they go? INDOOR AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT, 32 (1). pp. 44-65.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1420326x211054423

Abstract

<jats:p> The term resilience is being more widely adopted in fire safety engineering, however, its comprehensive description is not clearly explained or correctly applied in practice. This study, therefore, defines the categories, dimensions, characteristics, capacities, objectives and missions possessed by resilience to provide a holistic understanding of the term. This is followed by an analysis and classification of the UK Standards and Codes addressing resilience considering their administrative and engineering features of resilience, and their resilience dimensions with definitions of fire resilience measures and approaches. A practical example of a fire resilience framework is applied in educational buildings considering internal resilience for a safe facility, risk reduction and disaster management, and external resilience involving redundancy of resources and community support. Finally, a fire resilience design framework is created in which structural and fire safety engineering are considered clarifying the steps to follow in a comprehensive design process based on a flow chart. This paper will contribute to the creation of a unified terminology and understanding of the concept linked to resilience to be adopted in various disciplines. </jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Resilience, fire prevention, building management system, social environment planning, structural integrity and safety, regulations
Divisions:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	22 Feb 2022 08:05
Last Modified:	31 Jan 2023 18:15
DOI:	10.1177/1420326X211054423
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3149390