Fire Safety Design of Buildings: A Decision Support Framework to Assess the Safety of Occupants

Abstract: At the design phase, designers must investigate what design solution represents the best trade-off among a set of simulated fire scenarios. This choice requires a quantitative assessment, embracing the concept of performance-based design. This task can be facilitated using key performance indicators (KPIs). A KPI assessing life safety in the event of a fire is tested in this paper. Also, a framework to facilitate the mapping of KPI values through a graphical visualisation superimposed on the BIM model will be showcased. As a results, the life safety performance assessment is performed at any points of the building layout.