@article{ref1,
title="Fire scenarios in the enforcement of performance-based fire safety regulations",
journal="Journal of fire sciences",
year="2000",
author="Brannigan, Vincent M. and Kilpatrick, A",
volume="18",
number="5",
pages="354-375",
abstract="The critical problem in any performance-based regulatory system is &quot;linking&quot; the social objectives to the technical requirements. Since there is no technical method of deriving technical requirements directly from social objectives, society must express the social requirements in a technical form. Fire scenarios are one of the key methods for society to articulate technical requirements for fire safety in performance-based codes. Society must specify both design fires and the acceptable &quot;conditions&quot; for any analysis. Proponents of performance-based design must articulate methods for keeping all &quot;estimates&quot; within the approved range of values. Implementation of this social control system can take place in a &quot;regulatory design review&quot; as part of the performance-based code process. Examples are given of such reviews in the UK performance-based code environment.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0734-9041",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}