The MN Chapter of SFPE is excited to announce a one-day educational seminar on April 17,2019. SFPE MN Chapter is sponsoring a special rate seminar delivered by SFPE National.
Course Description:
This course will provide an overview of The SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance-Based
Fire Protection. This process identifies methods that includes defining a project scope;
developing goals, objectives and performance criteria; selecting design fire scenarios and design
fires; developing and evaluating trial designs; and preparing design documentation. Emerging
issues related to Performance-Based Design (PBD) will also be covered such as incorporating
Risk Informed Methods in PBD; selecting an appropriate fire model for a given application;
estimating required safe egress time (RSET); performance-based design in tall buildings;
performance-based design in long tunnels; performance-based design in structural fire
engineering; conducting peer review for a performance-based design and performance-based
design ITM for fire protection systems
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Define the process outlined in the SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance-Based Fire Protection
- Formulate fire safety goals & objectives for a given project
- Differentiate and apply the different types of acceptance criteria
- Estimate design fires based on a given scenario
- Contrast the differences in incorporating deterministic vs probabilistic approaches
- Identify the important steps in selecting a fire model for a given application
- Estimate REST
- Outline the steps in performing a structural fire engineering analysis
- Discuss fire safety issues in tall buildings and long tunnels
- Identify the steps to conducting a peer review for a PBD project
- Explain how to implement a performance-based ITM program for fire protection systems
Who will benefit:
This course is intended for engineers who are interested in applying the concepts of
performance-based design (PBD) and enforcement officials who review PBD or engineering
alternatives to prescriptive codes.
Course Assessment
Participants will be assessed via a written exam upon completion. They will need to pass with a
minimum score of 70%
Professional Development Hours
Upon completion participants qualifies for 7 PDHs, 0.7 CEUs. A Certificate of Completion will
be awarded.
Schedule
Registration and continental breakfast - 7:15 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.
Morning Session - 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Lunch - 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Afternoon Session - 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Delta Hotels by Marriott
1330 Industrial Blvd NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Costs
$175.00 (Members of MN SFPE)
$300.00 (Non-members of MN SFPE)
Space is limited to 50 participants. Reservations must be made before 4:00 pm Friday, April 5, 2019.
