Fire Safety of Industrial Halls
New fire safety regulation for single storey buildings have appeared in different countries (France, Spain, and Belgium) that could significantly reduce application of steel for these type of buildings. In order to provide strong technical arguments and solutions to avoid the introduction of excessive fire resistance requirements in the single storey field throughout Europe an ECSC research project “Fire Safety Of Industrial Hall And Low Rise Building” has been carried on and finalized in the year 2007.
In the scope of this project, it is clearly demonstrated that steel structure, if designed appropriately, fulfils the safety requirements in case of fire which will be given in terms of "non-progressive collapse" and "non dangerous failure type". On the basis of a series of parametric studies, several simple design rules as well as some key construction details are proposed in order to help all engineers to design safe steel structures for single storey industrial buildings.
The design guide is accompanied by software “LUCA”.