Risk and Performance Assessment Framework for a Sustainable and Fire Resilient Building Environment (SAFR-BE)

The work presented in this report represents an overview of risk methodologies, an investigation of state-of-the-art publications concerning the nexus between fire safety and sustainability, and the latest proof-of-concept and development of a model to foster sustainable and fire resilient choices in the design process of a building. The literature review has shown that while little is presently published concerning the nexus of sustainability and fire safety, some interesting investigations of sustainable and fire safe solutions have been found. Further, while the development of a complex hierarchical model to assess the sustainability and fire resiliency of different design choices is difficult, we have been able to make the first steps towards creating a framework to support decision making in the design of sustainable and fire resilient buildings as part of a larger framework to create a sustainable and fire resilient built environment (SAFR-BE). But rather than the whole built environment, the focus is on sustainable and fire resilient buildings (SAFR-B).