Fire Safety Challenges of Green Buildings and Attributes

Fire Protection Research Foundation report: Fire Safety Challenges of ‘Green’ Buildings and Attributes
Author: Brian Meacham, Meacham Associates, and Margaret McNamee Lund University
Date of issue: October 2020

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Fire Safety Challenges of ‘Green’ Buildings and Attributes

The Foundation initiated this project with the goal to conduct a global information search into fire events involving green / sustainable building materials, features and technologies, and into research, regulatory changes, engineering approaches, risk mitigation strategies, and firefighting tactics associated with fire challenges with green / sustainable building materials, features and technologies, which have emerged since the publication of the 2012 report, Fire Safety Challenges of Green Buildings.

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Previous report

• "Fire Safety Challenges of Green Buildings" (PDF), Brian Meacham, Brandon Poole, Juan Echeverria and Raymond Cheng, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, November 2012
   The Foundation commissioned this study to develop a baseline of information on the intersection of “green building” design and fire safety and to identify gaps and specific research needs associated with understanding and addressing fire risk and hazards with green building design.