Fire safey evaluation of residential building

Abstract

Increasing demands of the new millennium for sustainable and durable structures, and the limited available resources, have awakened the need for safety of the building. Safety factor of the buildings are depending upon the importance factor of the buildings. The more the importance factor the more safety factor. One such safety factor i.e., fire safety is totally of neglectful in most of the residential building and become a threat and danger to the occupants if accidentally building catches fire. One has to see the capability of existing building to fight with fire. One also has to see construction of the building has followed the standard with respect to fire safety by doing fire safety audit. For the present work one residential building has been selected. Fire safety audit list were prepared by referring IS codes. Due to pandemic permission was not granted to do fire safety audit. Keywords: Fire Safety Audit.