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This companion document to the ICC Performance Code for Buildings and Facilities leads the reader along a path from a discussion of the origins of performance-based building codes and the background behind the ICC Performance Code to discussion of the basics of performance design. It was designed to assist the reader in learning more about performance, applying performance concepts appropriately and knowing what to look for in the review of designs that have been developed using the ICC Performance Code.
The ten chapters cover history and overview, regulatory systems, understanding administrative issues, risk characterization and performance concepts, fire, structural design, pedestrian movement and safety, building envelope, maintaining building performance throughout a building's life cycle and prospects for the future.
- Chapters authored by leading experts in the field, including Ron Hamburger, Jim Quiter, and Bob Weber.
- Provides a comprehensive resource for information about performance-based building codes worldwide.
- Useful for all participants in the design and approval process, offering code officials, designers and engineers guidance on everything from design concepts to documentation and verification needs.
- Gives helpful insight into the structure of performance-based building codes, risk and performance concepts and performance-based design.
From the Introduction
With the first publication of the ICC Performance Code for Buildings and Facilities (ICC PC) in 2001, the International Code Council (ICC) ushered in a new era in building regulations in the United States. For the first time, jurisdictions had a model performance code, which they could adopt or use administratively, to provide an added level of guidance for engineering building design solutions. By virtue of its publication, the ICC Performance Code both opened the door to new and different design options, and provided much-needed guidance on what level of skills, analysis and documentation is needed for successful engineered designs.
In many respects, although performance concepts have been around for years, the ideas of a performance-based building code, and of a building design that starts with performance objectives and requirements rather than a prescriptive code requirement, are relatively new. There is not a great deal of experience with performance concepts in either the engineering or enforcement communities. Some disciplines have developed performance-based design guidance documents and others have not. Although there are people at both ends of the spectrum - performance is either great or is something to be feared - there are growing numbers of design and enforcement professionals who are eager to learn about performance concepts in design, and to apply them appropriately and reasonably in the built environment.
This book has been written with the aim of helping the growing segment of the building design and enforcement professionals who want to learn more about performance, apply performance concepts appropriately and know what to look for in the review of designs that have been developed using the ICC Performance Code. In meeting this aim, this book leads the reader along a path from a discussion of the origins of performance-based building codes, into the background behind the ICC Performance Code and on into discussions of the basics of performance design.
Chapter 1 provides an overview of performance-based building regulations around the world - where they came from, what they look like and how they are used. In part, this chapter illustrates that the performance concept is neither new nor unique to the United States, but rather, has been embraced within several countries.
Chapter 2 builds on the overview provided in Chapter 1 and discusses the key components of a performance-based regulatory system (including the need for prescriptive codes as one means to demonstrate compliance with performance objectives - a fact many people often fail to grasp.
Chapter 3 is where the direct connection to the ICC PC begins, with a discussion of the administrative issues associated with implementation, use and enforcement of the ICC Performance Code and how these administrative issues are similar to and different from those in a prescriptive system.
Chapter 4 provides an introduction to risk and performance concepts, and how they are represented in the ICC Performance Code. As with many of the other chapters, this one serves as both a primer on the general concepts and as guidelines to how one applies the concepts in the context of the ICC Performance Code.
Chapter 5 gives the reader an introduction to performance-based fire protection analysis and design and to how these concepts may be applied in conjunction with the ICC Performance Code. It provides an overview of basic concepts and provides reference design guidance published by the Society of Fire Protection Engineers and others.
Chapter 6 provides an introduction of performance-based structural design concepts.
Chapter 7 addresses a wide range of issues associated with pedestrian movement and safety, from the design of emergency egress to accessibility, to addressing hazards from building materials (and many factors in between).
Chapter 8 introduces the reader to concepts of performance associated with the design of the building envelope (facade). This is a broad-ranging chapter, as it addresses issues from structural performance, to thermal and environmental performance, to sustainability.
Chapter 9 provides the reader with guidance on how to maintain the desired and required performance of the building throughout its intended life.
Chapter 10 gives the reader some insight as to what the future might hold in the area of performance-based building regulations and the system required to support such regulations.
This book is a compilation of chapters written by design and enforcement professionals who are leaders in their fields (author profiles follow the Introduction). As a result, although some editing has been done to provide a consistent look to each chapter, there are some stylistic differences between chapters, ranging from presentation to level of technical detail.
As noted above, this is an introduction to the topics of performance-based codes and design. To help the reader learn more, there are numerous references in this book to other sources of information. Although much more can be said on the topic of performance, and on performance based design under the ICC Performance Code, this text is a good companion document to the ICC Performance Code for those starting down the performance path.
Table of Contents
Foreword; Table of Contents; Introduction; About the Authors; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Performance-Based Building Codes around the World: History and Overview; Chapter 2: Performance-Based Regulatory Systems; Chapter 3: Understanding Administrative Issues with the ICC Performance Code; Chapter 4: Risk Characterizations and Performance Concepts; Chapter 5: Fire; Chapter 6: Structural Design; Chapter 7: Pedestrian Movement and Safety; Chapter 8: Building Envelope; Chapter 9: Maintaining Building Performance throughout a Building's Life Cycle; Chapter 10: Prospects for the Future; Appendices. |
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