ARBE3306 Fire Safety and Compliance

Assessment 3_Briefing Document Building

1 Background

1.1 Assessment 3 - Written Professional Report

1.1.1 The assignment aim is:

(a) To introduce and reinforce the concepts of Fire Safety engineering and compliance through assessment of a performance solution developed using fire safety engineering.

1.1.2 On completion of this assessment the student should be able to:

(a) Apply knowledge of the practical design process adopted by the industry.

(b) Present written and visual concepts and ideas.

1.2 Building

1.2.1 Assessment 3 places you in the role of an employee of a private certifying consultancy firm. In this position you are given a building to work on that is subject to a performance solution as recognised by the Building Code of Australia.

1.2.2 The performance solution will ‘generally’ address the non-compliances with the deemed to satisfy provisions and relevant performance requirements in the Building Code of Australia.

1.2.3 You will be required to review the ‘entire report’ including the ‘performance solutions’ using the principles in the Building Code of Australia and the Australian Fire Engineering Guidelines as a guide in conjunction with the lecture material: provide an executive summary of the solutions and identify any amendments required to the report and solutions to ensure compliance with the Building Code of Australia and consistency with the Australian Fire Engineering Guidelines.

2 Assessment item-briefing document

2.1 Documentation

2.1.1 This assessment-briefing document provides the initial information necessary to complete the assignment. The following will be provided:

• A copy of the Performance Solution report developed using Fire Safety Engineering.

2.1.2 You may be required to make assumptions or ‘educated’ guesses on any information/material that you believe to be missing: if so, explain/justify these assumptions.

2.2 Assumptions

2.2.1 The following are reasonable assumptions/requirements for this assignment:

a. The Performance Solutions should identify non-compliances with certain DTS provisions in Section C, Part D1-D3, and Section E, of BCA2022

b. A Fire Safety Performance Based Design Brief should have been developed in consultation with the Fire Engineering team

c. That the Fire Engineer should have met with NSW Fire and Rescue to finalise the development of the Performance Based Design Brief and the report - this should be included in the documentation

d. That for the purposes of this Assessment you are a certifying authority accredited by the NSW Department of Fair Trading to issue a construction certificate for the building