Fire accidents are a very common occurrence in our society today. These occur due to many reasons for example natural causes like wild fires and natural disasters like lightning. They also occur due to man-made causes which mostly end up happening in some sort of structure like a house, an office or a factory. These fire accidents can lead to the loss of lives, expen- sive equipment and collapse of structures that can even lead to more loss of life.
This shows how important it is for us civil engineers to design for this accident just as much as we design when it comes to wind accidents or snow accidents that cause the collapse of a global structure or a specific part of the structure. That is why in this project, I will be making as much research as I can in the ensuring of structural safety of an office building. I will first start by understanding what fire is and its various causes, look into its various relations with common building materials like concrete and steel and then finally do fire design for the material structures.