Elements and Performance Criteria
- Evaluate performance-based designs.
- Role of regulation of buildings and the built environment within society are identified and applied.
- Societal goals related to the construction and use of buildings are interpreted.
- BCA hierarchy and the role of objectives, functional statements and performance requirements are identified and recorded.
- Differences between public policy and professional judgement are identified and recorded.
- Apply the performance-based BCA.
- Various assessment methods for performance-based codes, risk assessment and risk management principles contained in the BCA and their application are identified and applied for building projects requiring assessment and management of risk.
- Methodologies for determining correct performance requirements for buildings to be satisfied are demonstrated.
- Processes for involving relevant parties in the decision making process are determined.
- Fire safety engineering brief (FSEB) process is identified and applied.
- Assessment report for a performance-based solution is prepared.
- Importance of documentation and record keeping for performance-based solutions is identified and applied.
- Impacts of a performance-based solution on building maintenance and alterations are identified and reported.
- Evaluate risk assessment.
- Methods of determining and assessing risks are identified and applied.
- Consequences of various forms of risk are identified and reported.
- Basic probabilistic analysis, including use of event trees, is applied in accordance with risk assessment principles for fire safety engineering.
- Statistics used in risk assessment practices are interpreted.
- Research data sources for risk assessment and management are identified and applied.
- Evaluate fire safety engineering.
- Potential fire hazards and causes of fire are identified and reported.
- Fire loads and fire growth characteristics are identified and interpreted.
- Research data sources for fire safety engineering are identified and interpreted.
- Principles of fire detection, suppression and extinguishment are applied.
- Tenability limits and effects and toxicity of smoke on building occupants are identified and listed in accordance with fire engineering principles.
- Human behaviour and movement principles are identified and applied.
- Fire brigade activities and intervention principles are recorded.
- Compute software applications used in fire safety engineering are identified and their limitations of use assessed.