FIRE SAFETY EVALUATION OF DWELLINGS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF REGULATION.

The aim of this research is to analyze how Turkey’s Regulation on Fire Protection influence fire safety precautions on housing design and construction in Turkey. Tokat province center, which is one of the less populated cities of the country, has been chosen as the study area. In the study; 5 residential buildings which were designed and built before 2002 in when the Regulation entered into force and also 5 different residential buildings which were designed and built after 2002 have been analyzed comparatively according to 20 measurable criteria which are chosen among the provisions of the National Fire Regulations and according to the architectural project, the studies done in the building site and interviews carried out with responsible persons. The influence of Regulation on Protection of Buildings from Fire in the design and construction process of residential buildings constructed in Tokat has been evaluated with respect to the results of this analysis. When the results of analysis are examined, it has been determined that there has been an improvement, in terms of fire safety, in the houses which were designed after the national fire regulation entered into force but it has not reached to the desired level. The housings which are selected in this research are built after the regulation and they are among the high building group. It is thought that this situation makes it difficult to fulfill the provisions of the regulation, and therefore a number of criteria are not fulfilled.

Keywords:

Fire Safety, Housing Fire Regulation,

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