Canadian experience of fire safety in high buildings

2019/12/16 by Galbreath, M.
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paper · doi:10.4224/40001714

Abstract

The circumstances leading to the development in Canada during the 1970s of special measures for life safety in high buildings are described. Examples are given of tests carried out to verify the effectiveness of controls on movement of smoke, and reference is made to some real fire incidents in high buildings.

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