Resilience for Fire Safety

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2019-06-28

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Kızılkaya Öksüz, Nilüfer
Tanyer, Ali Murat

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The paradigm shift of disaster management studies from reactive strategies with rapid mobilization of resources and disaster responses to proactive strategies with hazard mitigation and vulnerability reduction have been reflecting the fire hazard researches. That paradigm shift directs fire safety management studies to the “concept of resilience,” which focuses on the capacity of human and physical systems to respond to extreme events. Despite its importance, fire safety issues are mostly considered as individual elements disregarding their possible cascading effects and global impacts on systems functionality. As a consequence, there are a limited number of researches adapted fire hazard and resilience concepts, except the ones based on structural resilience measurements interrelated with the earthquake hazard analyses data. In this study, a literature review of fire safety doctoral dissertations based on sixteen fire themes, including resilience studies, were analyzed according to their context, policies, parameters, methodologies, and stakeholders. The discussions specific to fire resilience themes showed that, although fire safety is a wellknown hazard, the researches remain in building scale due to low risk of fire events. However, in contrast to low probabilities, fire, and fire following earthquake hazard losses have high consequences. Besides, the disaster management in urban scale requires a complex structure of information about a building’s function, the design objectives, hazards, the dimensional, material, economic and site constraints, and regulatory expectations. Due to the complexity of integrating these multiple-input parameters with fire risk assessment, a resilience-based approach is needed to focus on enhancing resilience for both known and predictive uncertainties. This research analyses the current themes and methodologies of fire resilience and suggests a framework for systematic discussions of future fire hazards.

Subject Keywords

Disaster management, Fire resilience, Fire safety, Risk assessment

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/70914

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nternational Disaster & Resilience Congress (IDRC2019)

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Department of Architecture, Conference / Seminar

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N. Kızılkaya Öksüz and A. M. Tanyer, “Resilience for Fire Safety,” Eskişehir, Türkiye, 2019, p. 105, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/70914.