Citation

Marchant EW. Fire Technol. 1989; 25(2): 165-176.

Affiliation

Unit of Firesafety Engineering, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, EH9 3JL Edinburgh, UK

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF01041424

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The nature of historic buildings is considered from a firesafety viewpoint and some of the concepts of acceptable risk are described. The main approaches to the provision of adequate firesafety are discussed and the use of conventional fire precautions is reviewed briefly in the context of historic buildings.