RN-8615 NFA N108 EVAL PERFORMANCE-BASED DESIGN
This 6-day, 44 hour course is designed to provide the student with the fundamental knowledge, skills, and abilities to assess performance-based fire safe building designs employing sophisticated computer modeling techniques. Students will be introduced to concepts and technologies that shift building design from traditional prescriptive-based building and fire regulations to strategies where engineers, architects, and designers employ a variety of options to meet specific performance goals. Subjects addressed in this course include understanding the principal difference between the prescriptive-based and performance-based design options; why a building owner may wish to use the performance-based design option; essential elements of the performance-based design, including the influence of fire behavior and the role of documentation, definition of project scope and fire safety goals, and setting objectives; an introduction to the capabilities, limitations, and assumptions of the engineering methods and fire modeling used in performance-based design; and how changes should be addressed. This course does not teach students how to perform fire modeling.
Distribution
Extended Learning