Handbook on Building Fire Codes

Handbook on Building Fire Codes.
by
G.B.Menon
Fire Adviser, Govt. of India {Retd.} Cochin
Ex-Chairman CED-22 Fire Fighting Sectional Committee
Bureau of Indian Standards.
J.N.Vakil
Asst.General Manager{Retd},TAC/GIC,Ahmedabad
Ex-Chairman CED-36 Fire Safety Sectional Committee
Bureau of Indian Standards.

Building, whether used for living, working, entertainment or for other purposes, forms an integral and major constituent of human habitat. As a sequel to the all round socio-economic progress, and the steady urbanisation processes gathering momentum all over our country for the past few decades, there has been enormous increase in the number of buildings of all classifications, including high-rise
and special buildings, especially in the urban and surrounding areas.

With the technological advances on all fronts, not only the factor of susceptibility, but the complexity of fires, explosions and the hazards which these buildings are exposed to have also increased manyfold. These hazards have been instrumental in causing heavy losses in lives and property throwing up fresh challenges to planners, architects and fire protection services in evolving better and improved methods of design and fire protection in order to mitigate such losses.

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