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Best practices in the field of fire engineering are procedures that are accepted or prescribed as being correct or most effective.
Strategies for fire engineering is a plan of action designed to achieve an overall aim, usually life safety and property conservation.
Introduction
When architects and engineers collaborate on a new building, extension to an existing building, or renovation to a new building, fire and life safety is always a consideration. A specialty in the fire community that exists to assist with that is fire protection engineers. Fire protection engineering is a professional licensure governed by the state in which the person would like to be licensed in. To become a licensed professional engineer (PE), a person would need to complete a 4-year degree in engineering from an accredited engineering program, pass the Fundamental of Engineering (FE) exam, complete a state-determined number of years working under a licensed PE, and then pass the Principles and...
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Reichert, J. (2019). Fire: Prescriptive and Performance Based Design. In: Shapiro, L., Maras, MH. (eds) Encyclopedia of Security and Emergency Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69891-5_51-3
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