CRITICAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE CHOICE OF FIRE SAFETY SYSTEMS IN GHANA

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Baabereyir Bertino Richard , Tetteh Otchie Philip , Ohene Michael , Asubey Yakubu

CRITICAL FACTORS, INFLUENCES CHOICE, FIRE SAFETY, SYSTEMS, GHANA

ABSTRUCT Recently, fire outbreaks in the country have generated many discussions on rumours relating to politics, sabotage or religious differences among others, yet little is done to reduce this high incidence of fire outbreaks. One quandary identified is that, there is no uniform standard for building safety design, and ambiguous acceptance criteria used by building designers enthralling them to design what they think it is vital to them, hence, ignoring regulations and standards as their bench mark. The study adopted a quantitative descriptive approach, and questionnaires items tested by principal architects and chief service engineers, totalling one –hundred and thirty-four (134) of which 95 for architects and 39 for services engineers with good standing firms, belonging to registered professional bodies across the country. SPSS Version 21.6 package was used in two forms of statistical analysis undertaken: descriptive statistics such as frequency, and percentages were used to summarize information from respondents, and factor analysis using the enabled the critical influential factors identified from literature, regulations and international standards under ten components as 1) Holistic Design variables, 2) Relevance design considerations variables, 3) Fire safety objectives variables 4) Performance based code variables, 5) Fire detection, alarm Systems and suppression systems variables, 6) Active Fire Protection variables, 7) Building Fire Safety consideration variables, 8) Fire Emergency Power Design variables, 9) Built-in’ Fire Protection or ‘Passive Fire Protection’ (PFP) variables, and 10). Fire risk activities variables. Kish (1965) formula was used for calculating minimum sample size for the study. The results of this study would enable fire safety designers Ghana to be successful in its quest to incorporate these identified influential factors in their designs. The study seeks to find out critical influential factors related to design of building fire safety that contribute to BSI’s in Ghana: purposeful of given initial screening evaluation for fire safety and health performance throughout the entire design process.

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Baabereyir Bertino Richard, Tetteh Otchie Philip, Ohene Michael, & Asubey Yakubu (September-2024). CRITICAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE CHOICE OF FIRE SAFETY SYSTEMS IN GHANA . INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 9(9), a819-a832. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2409092.pdf

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Research Area: Civil Engineering 

Country: WIAWSO, WESTERN NORTH, Ghana

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