ENFP 250 - Introduction to Life Safety Analysis

FIRE Center Sponsor: Salamander, the National FPE Honor Society

Smoke movement through a building that may be used for tenability analysis.

The textbook for the course is NFPA101: Life Safety Code, 2009 (The Handbook version is preferred).

This course will give students an introduction to fire protection engineering, building regulation, building safety systems, and egress system design. Attention is also given to the topics of evacuation modeling, human behavior in fires and tenability analyses.
ENFP250 is open to all fire protection engineering students at the university, however permission from the department is required.

Upon completing ENFP250, students should:

Develop an understanding of experimental procedures and data analysis methods for evacuation studies (ABET Student Outcome 2)
Understand the discipline of FPE, including roles and relationships of interested parties (ABET Student Outcome 6)
Develop an understanding of fire phenomena, including ignition, fire growth and enclosure effects (ABET Student Outcome 8)
Understand the roles / features / elements of systems used to mitigate fires in buildings
Be able to perform life safety analyses.

Introduction: What is Fire Protection Engineering? What is “The Fire Problem”?
Life Safety: Overview of NFPA101, Classification of occupancies and hazards, prescriptive vs. performance-based designs
Means of Egress: Egress components, Occupant loads, Reliability of means of egress, special requirements
People Movement: Principles of people movement, Human behavior during a fire scenario, Performance-based evacuation
Tenability: Smoke Layer movement, Visibility, Fractional Effective Doses