| Issue |
MATEC Web of Conferences
Volume 10, 2014
Building Surveying and Technology Undergraduate Conference
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 06002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | Construction Health and Safety | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20141006002 | |
| Published online | 19 March 2014 | |
Appraisal of Passive and Active Fire Protection Systems in Student’s Accommodation
School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800, Penang, Malaysia
a Corresponding author: mariati@usm.my
Fire protection systems are very important systems that must be included in buildings. They have a great significance in reducing or preventing the occurrences of fire. This paper presents an assessment of fire protection systems in student’s accommodation. Student accommodation is a particular type of building that provides shelter for students at University. In addition, it is also supposed to be an attractive environment, conducive to learning, and importantly, safe for occupation. The fire safety of occupants in a building, must be in accordance with the requirements of the building’s code. Therefore, the design of the building must comply with the Uniform Building By-Law (UBBL) 1984 of Malaysia, and provide all of the required safety features. This paper describes the findings from investigations of passive and active fire protection systems installed in buildings, based on fire safety requirements, UBBL (1984).
© Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2014
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.