ARBE3306

Building Fire Safety and Compliance

Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment School of Architecture and Built Environment

10 Units 3000 Level Course

Available in 2013

Callaghan Campus	Semester 2
Distance Education - Callaghan	Semester 2

Previously offered in 2012, 2011

This course explores the principle and practice of assessment, evaluation and the provision of recommendations associated with fire safety alternative solutions. Students will understand building regulations, fire dynamics, fire safety measures, human behaviour and risk assessment, as well as developing knowledge of the practical design process adopted by the industry.

Objectives

At the completion of the course students will be able to:

- Understand fire dynamics, fire initiation through to decay and combustion effects.
- Investigate building regulations and fire engineering principles and their application to fire engineered alternative solutions.
- Understand active and passive fire safety systems and their application.
- Understand human behaviour and risk assessment.
- Apply knowledge of the practical design process adopted by the industry.
- Present written and visual concepts and ideas.

Content

- The National Construction Code, Australian Standards and the International Fire Engineering Guidelines.
- Fire dynamics, convection, conduction and radiation.
- Fire initiation and development, ignition, pre-flashover, flashover and decay.
- Building occupant characteristics and behaviour during fire emergencies.
- Building fire service and equipment including types and application.
- The Fire Engineering Brief and Fire Engineering Report: Fire engineered alternative solutions.
- Design and maintenance of fire safety measures.
- Certification processes including fire safety schedules, certificates and statements.
- The Building Surveying and Fire Engineering professions.

Industrial Experience

Assumed Knowledge

ARBE1102

Modes of Delivery

Distance Learning : IT Based
External Mode
Flexible Delivery / Student Centred Learning
Internal Mode

Teaching Methods

Problem Based Learning
Lecture
Self Directed Learning
Tutorial

Assessment Items

Essays / Written Assignments	1. A written academic piece of work (professional report) that applies the principles of building regulations, fire dynamics, building response to fires to a real life problem.
Essays / Written Assignments	2. A written academic piece of work (professional report) addressing a problem of the practical design process adopted by the industry.
Journal	3. A learning journal reflecting on provided reading materials

Contact Hours

Lecture: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Tutorial: for 1 hour(s) per Week for 12 weeks

Timetables