Description
Book SynopsisAuthors Jerry Tracy, Jack J. Murphy and James J. Murtagh invite fire chiefs, fire officers, firefighters, fire protection engineers, building management and the greater fire community to explore
High-Rise Buildings: Understanding the Vertical Challenges as a foundation for coordination and control of high-rise building operations.
Features:
- Learn about cognitive command from many invaluable high-rise fire case histories.
- Manage and respond to all-hazards events within the high-rise environment for generations to come.
- A guideline and reference for fire professionals, building owners and system engineers, the building construction community, property managers.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: Understanding the Vertical Challenges
1 The vertical challenges
2 Building/fire codes--Impacting tall buildings
3 Building construction
4 Fire protection systems
5 Building systems
6 Other building systems
7 If these walls could talk
PART II: Command and firefighting unit responses
8 Command, management, and administration of high-rise fires and emergencies
9 Firefighter fire unit response
10 The vertical challenge and occupancy types
PART III: Erecting a skyscraper and looking ahead to new designs and techniques
11 The ever-changing skyline: The evolution to building a skyscraper
12 Looking ahead to new tall building designs and techniques
List of abbreviations
Index
About the authors
