The Equivalent Protection Schemes for Fire Sprinkler Systems Full-Scale
Fire Testing for Performance-Based Fire Protection case study will focus on
the need to consider performance-based, full-scale fire testing as an alternate
and equivalent to prescriptive-based fire sprinkler design criteria. We will
review operational compliance issues; evaluating and identifying actual
hazards, advantages, challenges, and opportunities that can arise in
performance-based, full-scale fire testing. We will explore examples of
prescriptive requirements and compare that to real world actual conditions.
We will review the
opportunities and pitfalls of using a performance-based approach in lieu of
application of prescriptive criteria. Performance-based criteria provides the
opportunity for superior fire protection while allowing operational
flexibility.