Designing an Underground Car Park Fire Scenarios on a Probabilistic Basis

Designing a fire safety measures can be usually achieved in a two ways. One or we should say more conservative way is the use of prescriptive based codes, where all design prerequisites are mainly written in codes. Other or second option is the use of performance based design, where the group of designers, building owners and authorities having jurisdiction are setting up a milestone and design requirements. Simulation of fire and its consequences constitutes a cornerstone of modern fire safety engineering: the simulations enable to examine computationally the adequacy of the design with respect to a wide range of fire safety objectives including safety of life, directly exposed or neighboring property and infrastructure as well as the environment. Each simulation must be based on a realistic fire scenario, which technically formulates social expectation of safety. Designing realistic fire scenarios is even more important when underground car park is chosen as the subject of analysis. Setting the realistic goals and outcomes is a real technical problem that requires realistic and reliable inputs. It is found that fire scenario inputs can be statistical weighted and analyzed.