Design which considers the building as a complex system, and fire safety as one of the many interrelated subsystems which can be achieved through a variety of equivalent strategies.
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Methodology for the Evaluation of Fire Safety in Existing Urban Residential Areas in Spain: The Case of Social Housing in Pamplona (1940-80)
María Fernández-Vigil (Universidad de Navarra, Spain), Carmen Corrales (Universidad de Navarra, Spain), Raquel Garin (Universidad de Navarra, Spain), and Juan Bautista Echeverría (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4030-8.ch008
Abstract
Residential buildings are the most common scenario of fatal fires in Spain, and over the past decade, there has been no significant decrease of fatalities in this kind of accident, even a slight increase in recent years. In this context, a systematic methodology to evaluate the risk level of residential buildings, previously grouped into building typologies, is presented. Its application to different housing typologies allows covering large urban ensembles, providing an important information to regulators and fire services. The factors that most increase the level of fire risk are identified, analyzing them both by their construction stage and by their morphology.