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Here is some paper about design of buildings for the fire situation in general.

The Leonardo da Vinci Pilot Project CZ/02/B/F/PP-134007, “Development of Skills Facilitating Implementation of Structural Eurocodes” addresses the urgent need to implement the new system of European documents related to design of construction works and products. These documents, called Eurocodes, are systematically based on recently developed Council Directive 89/106/EEC “The Construction Products Directive” and its Interpretative Documents ID1 and ID2. Implementation of Eurocodes in each Member State is a demanding task as each country has its own long-term tradition in design and construction.
The project should enable an effective implementation and application of the new methods for designing and verification of buildings and civil engineering works in all the partner countries (CZ, DE, ES, IT, NL, SI, UK) and in other Member States. The need to explain and effectively use the latest principles specified in European standards is apparent from various enterprises, undertakings and public national authorities involved in construction industry and also from universities and colleges. Training materials, manuals and software programmes for education are urgently required.
The submitted Handbook 5 is one of 5 upcoming handbooks intended to provide required manuals and software products for training, education and effective implementation of Eurocodes:
Handbook 1: Basis of Structural Design
Handbook 2: Reliability Backgrounds
Handbook 3: Load Effects for Buildings
Handbook 4: Load Effects for Bridges
Handbook 5: Design of Buildings for the Fire Situation
It is expected that the Handbooks will address the following intents in further harmonisation of European construction industry
- reliability improvement and unification of the process of design;
- development of the single market for products and for construction services;
- new opportunities for the trained primary target groups in the labour market.
The Handbook 5 is based on structural reliability and risk engineering related to Eurocodes. The following topics are treated in particular:
- fire actions in buildings,
- accidental combinations in case of fire,
- calibration of reliability parameters,
- life safety considerations,
- properties of materials,
- examples of concrete structures,
- examples of steel and composite structures,
- case studies of real fires.
A CD added to this Handbook 5 provides a review of the available software frequently used in the text. The Handbook 5 is written in a user-friendly way employing only basic mathematical tools.
A wide range of potential users of the Handbooks and other training materials includes practising engineers, designers, technicians, officers of public authorities, young people - high school and university students. The target groups come from all territorial regions of the partner countries. However, the dissemination of the project results is foreseen to be spread into the other Member States of CEN and other interested countries..

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