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Contributions to Proceedings:

A. Tani, Iris Mach:
"Wood-based multi-story buildings and fires in social contexts in Japan and Austria - Comprehensive Discussions on Risk Management";
in: "WCTE 2016 e-book", J. Eberhardsteiner, W. Winter, A. Fadai, M. Pöll (ed.); issued by: TU Wien; TUVerlag, Wien, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-903024-35-9, 4007 - 4016.



English abstract:
Sustainability and combustibility are both sides of utilization of wood. Wood is socially expected to be used in urban contexts as a sustainable material; nevertheless individual building owners have to pay additional costs for fire proof of buildings due to the combustibility of the material.
Fire risks correlate to certain risk factors. The distribution of risk factors is influenced by various social conditions. Each risk factor causes distinctive fire risks, which have a certain tendency on the proportion between frequency and damages. Effective social and individual countermeasures against fires are decided by degree of frequency of fire risks.
This paper deals with the structure of risk managements from the viewpoint of the characters of risk factors (individual issues) and the distributions of factors (social issues) in case we use wood in urban contexts as a comparative study between Japan and Austria based on statistical analysis.

Keywords:
Wood, fire, risk management, Japan, Austria


Electronic version of the publication:
http://repositum.tuwien.ac.at/obvutwoa/content/titleinfo/1528439


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