This book is designed to cover this gap and will be a right choice in this direction. It comprehensively deals not only with the fundamentals of fire engineering appends different building bye-laws and relevant abstracts from BIS and National Building Codes, NFPA, LPA, TAC, etc. but reviews structural safety, and provides sufficient multi disciplinary guidelines for selecting proper gadgets for complete fire safety of building complexes. A complete treatise on fire security of its own kind for the first time in India.

This book will appeal to architects, engineers, practitioners and all stakeholders who are involved in promoting, designing, constructing or operating buildings. This will include building owners and clients as well as facilities managers and those who design and construct buildings. It will also serve as a reference text for students in architecture, building environmental engineering and other courses concerned with the built environment.

Who should study this book:

Architects, Town Planners, Consultants, Contractors, Suppliers, Building Project Managers, Civil and Mechanical/Electrical Engineers, Energy Manager/Auditor, Building Owners, Facility Engineers/Managers, Estate Managers and Developers, Faculty and Students in Construction Management.

Contents:

1. Fire: The Social Aspects
2. Fire: The Science and Technology
3. Smoke Control and Pressurization
4. Behaviour of Materials and Structures in Fire
5. Fire Safety in Building
6. Fixed Fire fighting Installations
7. Fluidic Fixed fire Extinguishing Systems
8. Portable Fire Extinguishers
9. Automatic Fire Detection and alarm Circuits.