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Fire Safety for Very Tall Buildings

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Maintaining structural stability and limiting the spread of fire/smoke throughout the duration of a credible, structurally-severe design fire scenario (e.g., total burnout) are important requirements to satisfying overall fire life safety objectives for any very tall building design. This chapter describes how structural fire safety engineering approaches provide sufficient time for building occupants to exit the building or reach a place of relative safety with minimal fire exposure, enable fire fighting and search-and-rescue activities, and limit fire exposure to people and buildings in the surrounding area.

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    International Code Council. (2022). Fire Resistance. In: Fire Safety for Very Tall Buildings. The Society of Fire Protection Engineers Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79014-1_12

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