Building Life Cycle Assessment in Fire Protection

Abstract

We spend a significant part of our lives in built environment, in buildings; therefore the sustainable and safedesign of them has become a basic need nowadays. One major area of the security of buildings is fire protection, which, ina complex way, is an integral part of the life cycle of buildings. We are aware of fire safety estimation methods, technical procedures, risk assessments in the science of fire protection, but they do not comprise the entire life cycle of a building in terms of building – human – fire triple interaction, nor take account of complex fire protection.We are using building life cycle assessment (LCA) in order to create a sustainable future, to the model of whichengineering methods can be used to investigate the development of fire safety status of the built environment.Analyzing the activity of all participants involved in the fire protection of buildings in terms of usage throughout the entire life cycle of the building is also possible. In the publication I analyze the implementation of complex fire protection across the full life cycle of buildings.Integrated ininvestigation of fires, which were generated in critical times, in critical places, and situations,I introduce the potential development opportunities lying in complex fire protection based on engineering methods, and also in fire safety lifecycle analysis of buildings.