Fire and Life Safety Design

This skill provides practitioner-grade knowledge of fire and life safety design for architectural practice. It covers the architect's role in fire strategy, compartmentation, egress design, structural fire protection, smoke control, and active fire protection systems. All dimensional values are metric with imperial equivalents where standard practice requires.

Section 1: Fire Strategy Development

The Architect's Role

The architect is the primary coordinator of fire strategy in building design. While fire engineers provide specialist analysis (computational fire modeling, structural fire engineering, smoke control design), the architect is responsible for integrating fire safety into the architectural concept from the earliest design stage.