Fire engineering of prefabricated structural systems of modular buildings

凭借速度和成本效益，模块化建筑被认为是应对流行病和自然灾害以及大规模解决经济适用房危机的一种改变游戏规则的解决方案。然而，由于最近发生的模块化建筑火灾事件，它的普及受到了阻碍。该项目旨在开发新的火灾实验和先进的建模技术，以评估模块化建筑的火灾性能。还将开发计算工具和消防安全设计准则，以使模块化建筑能够更安全、更经济地建造。该项目将促进广泛采用模块化建筑，使最终用户和更广泛的社会，特别是住房部门和低收入家庭受益。

With the speed and cost benefits, modular construction is considered a game-changing solution in response to pandemics and natural disasters, and tackling the affordable housing crisis on a large scale. However, its uptake has been hindered due to recent fire incidents of modular buildings. This project aims to develop novel fire experiments and advanced modelling techniques to evaluate the fire performance of modular buildings. Computational tools and fire safety design guidelines will also be developed to enable modular buildings to be built safer and more economically. This project will promote the widespread adoption of modular buildings to benefit end-users and the wider society, especially the housing sector and low-income households.