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Serious fires can occur in very tall buildings during construction. This chapter discusses how buildings under construction present fire protection risks that are often overlooked, including incomplete or missing internal and exterior fire barriers; limited water supplies; extraordinary combustibles in and/or adjacent to the building; limited ingress and egress routes; extraordinary ignition sources from the temporary arrangement of utilities and the construction operations; and extraordinary security conditions.
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International Code Council. (2022). Buildings Under Construction. 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_19
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