High-Rise Buildings : Understanding the Vertical Challenges

Tracy, Jerry/ Murphy, Jack J./ Murtagh, James J.

Fire Engineering Books（2023/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 726 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781593705800
• DDC分類 628.922

Full Description

Authors Jerry Tracy, Jack J. Murphy and James J. Murtagh invite fire chiefs, fire officers, firefighters, fire protection engineers, building management and the greater fire community to explore High-Rise Buildings: Understanding the Vertical Challenges as a foundation for coordination and control of high-rise building operations.Features:

Learn about cognitive command from many invaluable high-rise fire case histories.
Manage and respond to all-hazards events within the high-rise environment for generations to come.
A guideline and reference for fire professionals, building owners and system engineers, the building construction community, property managers.

Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: Understanding the Vertical Challenges

1 The vertical challenges

2 Building/fire codes--Impacting tall buildings

3 Building construction

4 Fire protection systems

5 Building systems

6 Other building systems

7 If these walls could talk

PART II: Command and firefighting unit responses

8 Command, management, and administration of high-rise fires and emergencies

9 Firefighter fire unit response

10 The vertical challenge and occupancy types

PART III: Erecting a skyscraper and looking ahead to new designs and techniques

11 The ever-changing skyline: The evolution to building a skyscraper

12 Looking ahead to new tall building designs and techniques

List of abbreviations

Index

About the authors