A STUDY ON METHOD OF EVALUATING FIRE SAFETY IN OFFICE FACILITIES

Authors discussed on a method to estimate the fire damage area in existing office buildings by the beforehand questionnaire sheet survey. A questionnaire sheet was developed taking into consideration the score pointed not only the substantiality degree of the hardware factors, but also the substantiality degree of the software factors. A survey was conducted on experimentally 185 existing office buildings with the above-mentioned questionnaire sheet. As a conclusion, authors made clear what might calculate the fire safety index to be able to perform comparison of the fire safety performance between the building easily with the above-mentioned questionnaire sheet, and what might estimate the fire damage area before firebreak.