Fire Safety Design for Buildings – Fire Resistance Verification Method by Tomohiro NARUSE A Coordinator for International Research Cooperation Building Research Institute Tachihara 1, Tsukuba 305, 0802, Japan Trend of Building Fire in Japan Performance Based Code Framework of Evaluation on Fire Safety under Performance Based...
10 years of Performance Based Regulations in Australia Governor Barry Schafer provides a review of the application of Perfomance Regulations within Australia. AUSTRALIA_AND_PERFORMANCE BASED_CODES...
High Rise Buildings in the Middle East 2004 Governor Harbi Arafat presented on the developments of high rise buildings in the middle east A high-rise Building as defined by Emporis Data Community is a building 35 meters or greater in height, which is divided at...
High Rise Developments – A European Perspective 2004, Tokyo, Japan Vice President David Gibson presented on the roles and responsibilities linked to High Rise Developments within Europe and the United Kingdom reflecting on the role of Governments in the development and application of both Codes...
High-Rise issues – The World View of CTBUH and CIB Robert Solomon presented on the CIB International Council for Research and Innovation, and Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat reflecting on the mission to facilitate professional exchanges among those involved in all aspects of...
Introduction Green building, sustainable architecture, and environmentally responsible building are terms we hear when a building is designed and built to reduce energy consumption, improve indoor air quality, and limit environmental impacts. Such designs may cause anxiety for building officials due to non-conventional building techniques...
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BACKGROUND: Due to the change to larger shipping now used for freight the original Melbourne docking facilities were not suitable for modification as the river access could not be dredged to a sufficient depth. New facilities were established at the mouth of the river which...
2003 Introduction When Melbourne’s architectural icon swimming pool from its 1956 Olympic Games was converted into a multi-purpose sports centre in 1981, the fire aspects of the renovation were determined from a performance-based design process, rather than from strict adherence to the then current prescriptive...
Doclands Project – Melbourne, Australia 2003 Governor Barry Schafer provided a detailed presentation that encompassed the background to the docklands project, the funding initiative and details of the development over time reflecting on both new and altered structures. See more…. Barry_Schafer ...
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