Performance-Based Design Applied Analysis of Large-Scale Commercial Complexes

Abstract

With the urbanized development, large-scale commercial complexes emerge rapidly in which many constructive shapes and formats distribution exist. However, the current design of fire protection code is unable to stipulate them. Although it really resolved many difficulties in the engineering practice using the performance of fire protection design, it has also brought many problems like circumventing the standard requirement, derating fire load by choosing fire scenes at will, reducing safety standards due to depending on the management excessively, choosing technical parameter randomly, losing contact with reality in the evaluation analysis and so on. So people need to put forward the control of performance design application scope after analyzing some performance-based design cases of some large-scale commercial complexes, to determine the security goal combining the condition of our country and the safety management, to select the fire scenes objectively and actually and to formulate and improve the current standards after summarizing the performance design measures of the indoor commercial pedestrian streets and the large and middle-scale atriums even the common architectural shapes.