SCHEMA-SI: A hybrid fire safety engineering tool Part II: Case study

SCHEMA-SI is an engineering tool able to evaluate the performance of building fire safety system. It uses a dynamic hybrid model, which means that discrete events and continuous phenomena are interconnected at every instant. The model has been developed as a tool to assist fire protection engineers in performing fire safety engineering calculations. This tool may be also used to conduct risk assessments and to evaluate the efficiency of selected design strategies in case of fire in a specific building. Part I of this paper describes SCHEMA-SI tool basis. This paper focuses on a real case study. The case study aims at evaluating and comparing four fire safety strategies in a French hotel.

► A new fire safety engineering tool, namely SCHEMA-SI, is developed.
► SCHEMA-SI is tested to evaluate four fire safety strategies in a French hotel.
► Strategy comparison is based on the undesirable events likelihood.
► Strategy comparison is based on the likelihood of undesirable events.
► The safer strategy is selected based on the less likely undesirable event found.
► The obtained results are presented, analysed and discussed.