CIVE 5609
Fundamentals of Fire Safety Engineering
The fire safety system, including social, economic and environmental issues; description of the fire safety regulatory system and the governing building codes and standards. This includes the global fire safety system in a facility and active fire protection systems; detection, suppression, smoke management.
Topics
- social
- economic and environmental issues
Course catalogue
2023
Readings
- Dougal Drysdale, An Introduction to Fire Dynamics, Wiley, 1999 SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, 3rd Edition, 2002 Richard, L.P. Custer and Brian J. Meacham, Introduction to Performance-Based Fire Safety
Prerequisites & course information
Precludes additional credit for CIVE 5707 (2001-2002).
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- 2023 Winter Outline CIVE 5609 ↗2023