Steel Buildings in Europe

Part 7: Fire Engineering 7 - vi SUMMARY This document provides guidance for the fire design of single-storey steel building structures. It contains detailed information to allow engineers and designers to be more familiar with the current design approaches and calculation models, which can be applied not only to meet the prescriptive requirements but also to develop the performance-based fire safety design. The design methods introduced in the guide, ranging from simple design rules to more sophisticated calculation models, are derived from EN 1993-1-2 and 1994-1-2. They cover both steel and composite structures (unprotected or protected). In addition, some specific design rules are given, allowing simple verification of whether the behaviour of the steel structure of single-storey industrial buildings in fire situation fulfils the safety objectives on the basis of performance-based requirement.