On-demand access for current registrants is available until March 1, 2022.

This course will provide an overview of The SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance-Based Fire Protection. This process identifies methods that include defining a project scope; developing goals, objectives, and performance criteria; selecting design fire scenarios and design fires; developing and evaluating trial designs; and preparing design documentation. Emerging issues related to Performance-Based Design (PBD) will also be covered such as incorporating Risk-Informed Methods in PBD; selecting an appropriate fire model for a given application; estimating required safe egress time (RSET); performance-based design in tall buildings; performance-based design in long tunnels; performance-based design in structural fire engineering; conducting peer review for a performance-based design and performance-based design ITM for fire protection systems.

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

• Define the process outlined in the SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance-Based Fire Protection.
• Formulate fire safety goals & objectives for a given project.
• Prepare a fire hazard assessment for a designed project.
• Differentiate and apply the different types of acceptance criteria.
• Estimate design fires based on a given scenario.
• Contrast the differences in incorporating deterministic vs probabilistic approaches.
• Identify the important steps in selecting a fire model for a given application.
• Estimate REST
• Outline the steps in performing a structural fire engineering analysis.
• Discuss fire safety issues in tall buildings and long tunnels.
• Identify the steps to conducting a peer review for a PBD project
• Explain how to implement a performance-based ITM program for fire protection systems