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SHOPPING SOLUTIONS
The evacuation, smoke control and structural fire engineering design of a shopping centre in Scotland are outlined by Michael Belsham and Nick Bernabé.
KINGSGATE SHOPPING Centre in Scotland has reopened recently following a £50m extension and refurbishment. Located in Dunfermline, Fife, some 14 miles north of Edinburgh, the existing shopping centre has now been extended to 34,374m2, providing 15,050m2 of new floor space. Some 27 new shops feature at the centre, ...
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CODES OF CARE
Nigel Hiorns discusses the challenges of applying Firecode and other associated fire safety guidance in healthcare.
CONSIDERABLE EFFORT and commitment has gone into the development of the Department of Health’s (DoH’s) healthcare guidance, Firecode, and associated fire safety guidance. However, disparities in the guidance, as well as discrepancies in its application, compromise the ability to deliver best-value hospitals on programme.
The principal ...
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PROBABLE CAUSE
Probabilistic risk analysis should be used more often for fire-engineered designs. Michael Belsham explains, using the example of a proposed hotel design.
PROBABILISTIC risk analysis (PRA) forms part of the British Standard, BS 7974: Application of fire safety engineering principles to the design of buildings, yet remains under-utilised within the fire engineering industry. The reasons for this under-use are unclear, since:
- PRA provides an ideal ...
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