Beskrivning
The last years increased fire losses within industry accentuate the need of methods for economic optimisation of the fire protection in industrial buildings. Knowledge of the factors of significance for fire loss in industrial buildings will form the base for such optimisations and in the paper some factors of significans are recognized. The expected benefit to cost relationship on a national level as well as for individual objects of some fire protective measures are discussed. Finally some principles for evaluation of the overall fire risk in industrial buildings are discussed and the practical application of a functionally based method for such an evaluation is illustrated by some examples.
