And as emergency responders are dispatched to
the building if there is a fire incident.
Having the building stay up and not collapse while they burn,
to responders are in the building is a very important issue of course.
There are different ways that we protect structures,
that's part of what we'll talk about here.
We'll mention with the array of buildings here.
So there are a few of these buildings,
where the life safety aspect becomes an issue, and that usually is the case
in highrise buildings that take a fair amount of time to evacuate, so
as we look at the new tower here, get myself oriented, sorry,
get the new tower in the mideast, that is a couple of thousand feet tall.
That's gonna take a long time for
people to evacuate from the top level on to the ground level.
The First Interstate Bank building in Los Angeles and
the fire that occurred in 1988.
Another high-rise fire.
And there weren't many people in the building at the time of the fire, but
wanting to preserve the structural integrity of that building to allow
building occupants to get out.
And for that particular incident, for emergency responders to get in and
control the fire was an important issue.
There are other buildings, like the cable TV headquarters for China.
Being here, being a rather innovative structure.
The Olympic bubble For
the swimming competition at the Beijing Olympics.
We have our US capitol, where there's more than life safety,
now if that building burns down there is this historic building that
has cultural significance, would be lost.
So there's those issues.
I do have the basketball arena here as well on campus.
Where there's a life safety issue.
Where there's 17.000 people watching games.
And it's going to take awhile to evacuate that building.
Having the roof collapse while the people are trying to get out would not be,
at all, a desirable outcome obviously.
And again, there's the issue that if there is a serious fire in this building,
would the emergency responders be able to get in, and not to have to worry about
the structural collapse, would be a very important issue.
So, one of the values we want to talk about is,
is the same level of fire assistance provided in all structures.
And there's a rather easy answer to that, and the answer is no.
It is said that one doesn't have the same level of fire resistance in
all structures.
There are some structures that have no formal fire resistance rating associated
with them and there are others such as the high-rise buildings that we looked at that
may have several hours of fire resistance that would be designed into them.