NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Fire Safety Engineering

2005年，加拿大引入了以目标为基础的规范，鼓励建筑消防安全设计师通过使用工程工具向当局证明他们的设计符合既定目标，寻求安全且具有成本效益的解决方案。这与使用传统的基于规范的建筑设计有很大的不同，传统的建筑设计要求最低的工程水平。客观规范为木材行业提供了新的机会，因为他们现在可以进入非传统的木结构市场，包括非住宅建筑和中层建筑。消防安全工程工业研究主席的研究项目不仅解决了木材行业的需求，而且解决了加拿大消防安全的所有利益相关者的需求，以开发和验证计算机模型和其他设计工具和技术，这些工具和技术可用于生产安全和具有成本效益的消防安全设计。主席正在开发的火灾风险模型等工具，利用提案中所列测试的实验数据进行验证，将有助于预测轻框架木结构建筑物以及在基于性能的规范环境中建造的其他建筑物的消防安全性能。拟议研究的一部分旨在通过引入灭火和辐射衰减技术，找到解决火灾蔓延到邻近物业问题的解决方案。该建议还包括开发和提供针对消防安全从业人员的研究生水平课程和短期课程，使他们能够获得有效使用设计工具的必要技能。

The introduction of objective-based codes in Canada in 2005 has encouraged building fire safety designers to seek solutions that are safe and cost effective by using engineering tools to demonstrate to the authorities that their designs meet the established objectives. This is a significant departure from designing buildings using the traditional prescriptive based codes where a minimum level of engineering was required. Objective based-codes provided new opportunities for the wood industry as they can now move into non-traditional markets for wood construction that include non-residential buildings as well as mid-rise buildings. The research program of the Industrial Research Chair in Fire Safety Engineering addresses the need of not only the wood industry but also of all stakeholders of fire safety in Canada for the development and validation of computer models and other design tools and technologies that can be used to produce safe and cost-effective fire safety designs. Tools such as the fire risk model being developed by the Chair, validated using experimental data from tests included in the proposal, will serve to predict the fire safety performance of light-frame wood buildings, as well as other buildings constructed in a performance-based code environment. Part of the proposed research is directed at finding solutions to address the issue of fire spread to adjacent properties through the introduction of fire suppression and radiation attenuation technologies. The proposal also includes the development and delivery of graduate level courses and short courses directed at fire safety practitioners so that they will gain the necessary skills to be able to use the design tools effectively.