NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Fire Safety Engineering

加拿大于2005年引入了基于目标的规范，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，寻求安全和具有成本效益的解决方案。这与使用传统的基于规范的规范进行建筑设计有很大不同，在这些规范中，需要的是最低水平的工程。基于目标的准则为木材行业提供了新的机会，因为它们现在可以进入包括非住宅建筑和中层建筑在内的非传统木材建筑市场。消防安全工程工业研究讲座的研究项目不仅满足了木材行业的需求，也满足了加拿大所有消防安全利益相关者对计算机模型和其他设计工具和技术的开发和验证的需求，这些计算机模型和其他设计工具和技术可用于生产安全且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将用于预测轻型木结构建筑以及在基于性能的代码环境中建造的其他建筑的消防安全性能，该模型使用提案中所列测试的实验数据进行了验证。拟议研究的一部分旨在寻找解决办法，通过采用灭火和辐射衰减技术来解决火灾蔓延到邻近财产的问题。该建议还包括为消防安全从业者开发和提供研究生水平的课程和短期课程，使他们能够获得必要的技能，以便能够有效地使用设计工具。

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.