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Fire Risk Analysis and Fire Safety Design In Historical Sociocultural Buildings Cover

Fire Risk Analysis and Fire Safety Design In Historical Sociocultural Buildings

Open Access
|Sep 2025

Abstract

While historical buildings play an important role in transferring the socio-cultural values of the period to future generations, fires cause the destruction of cultural sustainability.

Aim

The aim of the study is to determine the risks encountered in historical buildings and to determine the measures that can be taken.

Method

The checlist method prepared in accordance with the fire regulations in Turkey and the risk analysis method defined in NFPA 101 A were used together. In this study, fire risk analysis was evaluated on a sample historical theater building in Turkey.

Results

When the risk-reducing factors are evaluated according to NFPA101A and BYKHY; the locations and characteristics of the floor and vertical shafts in the BYKHY are ignored and not associated with fire risks. In the NFPA101A fire safety assessment system, only the access roads to the building are excluded from the risk analysis.

Conclusion

In order to reduce the risks in fire safety, the originality of the building should be left in the second place and the sources of ignition and flammable coatings should be located far away and the change of function to the spaces that pose a risk should be limited.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acee-2025-0032 | Journal eISSN: 2720-6947 | Journal ISSN: 1899-0142
Language: English
Page range: 75 - 95
Submitted on: Sep 23, 2024
Accepted on: Jun 30, 2025
Published on: Sep 30, 2025
Published by: Silesian University of Technology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 times per year

© 2025 Melis KARADAĞ, Zuhal ŞIMŞEK, published by Silesian University of Technology
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