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Live Webinar: Expanding the Adoption of Performance-Based Structural Fire Design in the US

Now available for on-demand access!

Live Webinar: May 10, 2022, 11 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

One of the most promising tools for designing, analyzing, and evaluating thermal effects on structural systems due to fire is Performance-Based Structural Fire Design (PBSFD). Introduced in ASCE 7-16, Appendix E, PBSFD is an approach that permits the explicit evaluation of a structure’s ability to meet specific performance objectives under a variety of realistic design fire scenarios, unlike current prescriptive methods where satisfactory performance is implicit. PBSFD contributes to further understanding of risk to life, property, and economic losses that may occur from fire, and integrates fire with the other performance-based design methods for other design hazards in the US such as seismic and wind.Used in conjunction with performance-based fire protection, PBSFD will help deliver more resilient structures that meet identified goals and objectives. This webinar will provide an overview of a more detailed educational program being launched by SFPE and ICC in 2022. This webinar and the educational program are geared to those who affect the design, construction, or regulatory approvals of buildings.

Learning Objectives:
  • Discernment of Standard Fire Design and PBSFD
  • Understand the state of practice of PBSFD in the US
  • Awareness of PBSFD topics, details, process, and responsibilities
  • Seeking AHJ approval
  • Identify new and emerging resources available 

Presenters:

Rob Chmielowski, P.E., S.E., Senior Principal at Magnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA)
Robert Solomon, P.E., Principal Engineer at SLS Consulting
Amit H. Varma, Ph.D., Karl H. Kettelhut Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Bowen Laboratory of Large-Scale CE Research at Purdue University’s Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Target Audience:

Fire protection engineers, structural engineers, building code officials, fire marshals

Reference Materials:
  • ICC Performance Code® for Buildings and Facilities (ICCPC)
  • Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures, ASCE/SEI 7-16
  • ASCE Structural Fire Engineering, Manual of Practice 138.
  • NFPA Fire Protection Handbook
  • SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering
  • The SFPE Guide to Performance-Based Fire Safety Design
  • Performance-Based Structural Fire Design: Exemplar Designs of Four Regionally Diverse Buildings using ASCE 7-16, Appendix E
  • International Handbook of Structural Fire Engineering

Professional Development Hours:
1.5 PDH

Fees:
Free

Questions? Please email us at education@sfpe.org.