Fire Protection Principles in Heritage Buildings
Kidd (2005) and Maxwell (2007) recommended that all fire protection improvements in heritage buildings should follow the following principles: 1 Essential The fire systems should be central to meeting the objectives of the protection of life, buildings and contents. 2 Appropriate to Risk Any system that is installed should be opposite to risks being considered. 3 Compliant with legislation Systems should be installed according to demonstrable performance-based and other legislatively prescribed standards of safety. 4 Minimally invasive The retrospective fitting of fire systems should involve minimal degrees of physical intervention on the historic structure. 5 Sensitively integrated Installed systems should be designed to be integrated sympathetically with the historic fabric and its detail. 6 Reversib...
