Fire Safety Evaluation of Dwellings In the Framework of Regulation.

This research aims to analyze how Turkey's Regulation on Fire Protection influences fire safety precautions on housing design and construction in Turkey. Tokat province center, which is one of the less populated cities of the country, has been chosen as the study area. In the study; 5 residential buildings which were designed and built before 2002 in when Turkey's Regulation on Fire Protection entered into force and also 5 different residential buildings which were designed and built after 2002 have been analyzed comparatively according to 20 measurable criteria which are chosen among the provisions of Turkey's Regulation on Fire Protection (TRFP) and according to the architectural project, the studies done in the building site and interviews carried out with responsible persons. The influence of TRFP on the Protection of Buildings from Fire in the design and construction process of residential buildings constructed in Tokat has been evaluated concerning the results of this analysis. When the results of the analysis are examined, it has been determined that there has been an improvement, in terms of fire safety, in the houses which were designed after the TRFP entered into force but it has not reached the desired level. The housings which are selected in this research are built after the TRFP and they are among the high building group. It is thought that this situation makes it difficult to fulfill the provisions of the TRFP, and therefore several criteria are not fulfilled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]