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Economic optimization of fire safety measures
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The sum of fire losses in Swiss buildings exceeds 300 Mio. Swiss Francs
per year. Fire prevention measures are reducing this amount. Yet the
requirements in the fire safety codes need to be justified. Costs of
fire safety measures have to be balanced with the benefits they provide
by reducing fire losses. Of course, this optimization cannot be done
only by economic reasoning. Each year, in Switzerland 30-40 people die
in building fires. However, societal resources for life saving activities are limited and should be spent for the most effective alternatives available. To find an optimal configuration of fire safety regulations, we will construct a risk model for the Swiss building portfolio that takes into account the cost and economic benefits of fire prevention as well as changes in risk to life and limb. Fire is a random phenomenon and still not well understood. Also, the characteristics of the buildings in question are not precisely known when modeling on a portfolio basis. The risk model has to take into account all different types of uncertainty. Towards the end of the project, the model will be employed to evaluate the efficiency of different fire safety regulations. These results can be used as an objective basis for societal decision-making, e.g. for future code revisions. |
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Key Publications
- De Sanctis G., Fischer K., Kohler J., Fontana M., Faber M. H.:
"A probabilistic framework for generic fire risk assessment and risk-based decision making in buildings"
11th International Conference on Application of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering, ICASP11, Zurich, Switzerland, August 2011 - Fischer M., Fontana M., Krämer K.:
„Wirtschaftliche Optimierung im vorbeugenden Brandschutz / Optimisation économique de la prévention contre l’incendie“
Die Volkswirtschaft / La Vie économique, 06-2010, Hrsg.: Eidgenössisches Volkswirtschaftsdepartment, Schweiz.
Support
This project is kindly supported by the "Vereinigung Kantonaler Feuerversicherungen" (VKF).
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