Fire Safe Steel Structures - Case Studies

This paper presents practical applications of fire protection methods of steel framed buildings and enlightens the research in the background. The challenges to be met are partly due to the fact that especially the commercial buildings are getting bigger all the time and then also the area to be protected is larger. This leads very often to performance based design. In performance based design the realistic circumstances of the building, fire loads, dimensions, use and the fire risks are evaluated so that a sufficient safety level is achieved. In this kind of design normally part of the structural protection is done by traditional methods. This means that it’s no use of doing protection with too complicated ways, if some part of the structures is possible to protect cost-effectively and easily.