SFPE WEBINAR: THE JAPAN AND US FIRE SAFETY CONTRAST: VERIFYING FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY PERFORMANCE
Thu, Sep 17
|Webinar
THE JAPAN AND US FIRE SAFETY CONTRAST: VERIFYING FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY PERFORMANCE
Time & Location
Sep 17, 2020, 8:00 PM EDT
Webinar
About the Event
https://www.sfpe.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1364809&group=
Presented by: Joseph Vaughn, Japan and Pacific Rim Operations Director, Jensen Hughes
Join us for a case study for the construction of a new United States military medical/dental clinic in Japan. The facility was complex in terms of size, building use and operation, as well as the often conflicting fire and life safety requirements between the United States and Japan governments. The challenge was to ensure that the facility met both US and Japan society's accepted levels of fire and life safety performance in order to occupy building on time and on budget.
Joe Vaughn will discuss the project’s major challenges, including a holistic evaluation of the facility’s fire and life safety systems, determining equivalency, and evaluation of alternative approaches to life safety. In addition, many fire and life safety engineering evaluations rely on basic performance assumptions. What we find in practice is that we cannot expect what we do not inspect.