Fire and passive fire protection

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Limiting fire spread

By Greg Baker 1 October 2014, Build 144, Feature article

Fire research led by BRANZ is studying the best design approach for stopping fire spread in buildings. It’s part of a project to keep people safe and to reduce property damage.

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Alert to any alarms

By Karlum Lattimore 1 October 2014, Build 144, Feature article

The New Zealand Fire Service keeps a close eye on emerging fire risk and has identified some building products and practices that are potentially dangerous and should be avoided.

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Risk-based structural fire design

By Anthony Abu 1 October 2014, Build 144, Feature article

To date, structural fire design has been largely based on extreme fire scenarios. Now, the University of Canterbury is investigating using probabilistic assessment to improve building performance during fires.

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